John nichols rev (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Zustand: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Zustand: g to g+. Small quarto. 326pp. Original green cloth with gold lettering and decoration on spine. Frontispiece portrait of William Hogarth and his dog. Illustrated with 150 b/w reproductions, this volume reproduces, describes and explains the work of the great 18th-century British artist William Hogarth. Binding rubbed along edges. Minor and sporadic underlining in ink throughout the first 22 pages. Moderate and sporadic annotations and underlining in pencil throughout the rest of the book. Binding in overall good, interior in good+ condition. About the artist: William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as "Hogarthian".…

Green Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket as Published. 148pp, black & white plates, frontispiece with tissue, all edges stained red, marbled endpapers LACKS FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, lightly foxed throughout, occasional thumb smudges and other marks, half purple morocco with brown calf, spine has decorated raised bands with blind blocked decoration to the panels and gilt spine lettering on black, boards rubbed and worn, corners bumped, upper front joint worn to a small hole, spine head and tail rubbed. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 Inches. William Hogarth (illustrator). Art.…

Green Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket as Published. 326pp, black & white illustrations, page margins browned with age, otherwise cleam, spine starting to crack in one ot rwo places but binding feels firm, free endpapers tanned, armorial bookplate to front free endpaper, green cloth, gilt spine lettering and decoration, joints a little rubbed, some marks to lower board - see photos. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 Inches. Art.…

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Zustand: Good. Condition Notes: A little faded at the spine and onto the margins of the boards with the title plate chipped. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block. Hinges weak fore and aft. The plates lightly spotted throughout. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise; Hardback. Purple boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 9" x 5½" (1.2 kg); pp (xvi) 362 (lxiii); Includes: Line drawings; Black & white plates (14) including the frontispiece; Genealogical tables (some folding); || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #192224 ||.…

4to, 1 p. 18 lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair, on aged and lightly-stained paper. Neatly laid down on a leaf removed from an album. Lightly marked-up in red pencil by the recipient. After professing respect for Nichols's 'literary character' and his 'valuable miscellany', Glasse offers his services 'as corrector of your press for any quantity of Greek you may incidentally have occasion to publish'. He boasts that, as 'translator of Milton's Samson Agonistes into that language', he is 'not unequal to the task', and makes a disparaging reference to James More's translation into Greek of the opening lines of Paradise Lost, published in the Gentleman's Magazine in May of 1791 (p.471), most of the errors of which are, in his view, 'to be ascribed to the Author, not the publisher'. Ends by praising the efficiency of the 'penny post' and stating that his bookseller is 'Mr. Faulder'. Nichols is not named, but the reference to More makes it clear that he is the recipient.…

Leather. Zustand: Good. A lavishly illustrated collection of the works of William Hogarth, containing over one-hundred of his original detailed engravings. Complete in two volumes.A beautiful study on the works of William Hogarth, with an introductory essay by James Hannay. Including a biography and anecdotes on the life and works of Hogarth.Hogarth was an English painter and printmaker, known for his social satire cartoons. He is best known for his series 'A Harlot's Progress', 'A Rake's Progress', and 'Marriage A-la-Mode', which are included in full in this volume.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, engraved title page, and sixty-eight plates.Volume II illustrated with frontispiece, engraved title page, and seventy-three plates.With descriptive letterpress by J. Trusler and E. F. Roberts.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the Leeds Library.Collated, complete. Five of the plates in Volume II feature two illustrations to one plate, though in the list of plates each illustration is listed as a separate plate. In a half calf binding with marbled cloth to the boards. Externally, worn. Loss to the head and tail of the spines, heavier to the tail. Lacking the top spine label of Volume II. Chips and rubbing to the remaining spine labels. Rubbing to the boards and spines. Bumping to the extremities. Cracks to the leather to the head and tail of the spines. Light marks to the boards and spines, with a little discolouration to the joints. Hinges are starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spotting, heavier to the plates. Front endpaper and frontispiece of Volume I are almost detached. Prior owner's ink inscription to the head of the title pages. Good. William Hogarth (illustrator). book.…

Full Leather. Zustand: Very Good binding. 4to; full brown morocco; triple ruled at the perimeter of the boards with decorations in gilt and beveled edges; spine with raised bands,decoration and lettering in gilt in compartments; boards are a bit scuffed and bowed; gilt edges; with elaborate gilt decoration on the turn ins and marbled end papers; two volumes bound together complete with 108 engraved plates; some offsetting opposite plates; Vol I [6] 1-116 pages; Vol II [6] 118-224 [4] pages. Very Good binding.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good-. 1803 Revised Edition. Complete 24 volume set; Boards bound in marbled rich brown leather, all edges gilt though some vols. notably edge-worn, several areas of delaminated leather on vols.XIX and VI; Pages age-toned, foxing throughout textblocks, evidence of historic pest damage in some vols., all but vol XIV with previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, previous owner's signature on title pages of vols. I-III, V-VI and VIII, appears to be contemporary to publishing; Binding tight and all intact, though several vols. split at front/rear joints. ; 4 x 6.25"; ~7895 pages.…