nutt rev (4 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Some minor staining to covers. Some foxing. Bookseller's ticket on front endpaper, Newbolds, Dunedin, N.Z. ; xxix, [3], 311, [1 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + 2 plates. The 3 illustrations (frontispiece + 2 plates) are by E. Griset. Oatmeal colour cloth boards with brown lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 222 x 138mm. Fairy tales. The 2 plates are facing pages 6 and 20. Texts are given in both English translation and the original Scottish Gaelic for each story. Contents: Preface; Introduction; How Finn kept his Children for the Big Young Hero fo the Ship, and How Bran was Found; Finn's Journey to Lochlan, and How the Grey Dog was Found Again; How Finn was in the House of Blar-Buie (Yellow-Field), without the Power or Rising Up or of Lying Down; The Smith's Rock in the Isle of Skye; The Bare-Stripping Hangman; A Tale of the Son of the King of Ireland and the Daughter of the King of the Red Cap; The Son of the Strong Man of the Wood, Who was Twenty-One Years on His Mother's Breast; The Farmer of Liddesdale; A Tale about the Son of the Knight of the Green Vesture, Performing Heroic Deeds which were Famed on Earth Seven Years before he was Born; Notes.

pp.xxxiv, 306 with fold-out engraved frontis., one further fold-out engraved plate (of the apiary at Delabere Park, Berkshire) and 10 other engravings. 8vo. Hardback. Neat signature date 1855 and small blind stamp of J. Calt, Bookseller to the Queen [Victoria] to ffep. Just occasional minor spotting and marking o/w. contents fine. Original blind-decorated boards in thor. vg. condition. A very pleasing copy indeed. Harding 215. This work benefited greatly from revisions and enlargements. 'Nutt lived as a boy at Wisbech. A draper's assistant of no great schooling, he became interested in bees during a long convalescence. He asserts that he invented his collateral hive before ever reading a book on bees. He acquired many patrons and subscribers and made the hive and method very well known.' (Harding).

pp.xxx, 281 with engraved frontis., one further fold-out engraved plate (of the apiary at Delabere Park, Berkshire) and 10 other engravings. 8vo. Hardback. Signature, dated 23rd July 1839 to ffep. Traces of ancient bookworm to fore-edge margin of later pages, text not effected, o/w. contents fine. Original decorated cloth boards, a little rubbed on corners, spine neatly relaid. Harding 215. 'Nutt lived as a boy at Wisbech. A draper's assistant of no great schooling, he became interested in bees during a long convalescence. He asserts that he invented his collateral hive before ever reading a book on bees. He acquired many patrons and subscribers and made the hive and method very well known.' (Harding).