humber william ed (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. Photographic portrait frontispiece of J Hawkshaw. Front board missing, spine missing rear board detached. 57pp & 36 plates. Previous owner has done art work on the rear of four of the early plates. Bored & Bizarre behaviour. Stuck in the Jungle with a naked lady it appears. Book.

pp. xii, 59, (i). Frontispiece real photograph of JOHN ROBINSON MCCLEAN with facsimile signature below, 40 lithographed plates [mostly double-page, 1 folding]. Contemporary half morocco, rubbed and worn, some foxing, library book-plate and call number on verso of title but no stamps. *The frontispiece of McClean is by the UNITED ASSOCIATION OF PHOTOGRAPHY LIMITED, 213 Regent Street, [London]. It is described as a WOTHLYTYPE. In this rare variant technique, arrow-root was used to size the paper. GERNSHEIM # 267 records the four volumes published in this annual series, 1863 to 1866. It is not common, COPAC only records the BL, NLS and Oxford as having the four volumes and Glasgow having three.