patience empson (24 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 170 pages, green paper covered boards with gilt stamping. This is a clean, nice copy. Very Good in a slighlty toned and scuffed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Gibbings, Robert (illustrator). 8-3/4" x 11-1/4", xliv + 305pp. Sewn binding in black cloth boards. Wrapped in vinyl dust jacket with title block stamped onto it in red; there is a closed 4" tear from the top of the spine hinge on the back cover, and some rubbing / shelf wear to the jacket. A copy of the publisher's prospectus for this volume is laid in. Binding is square and tight, pages are clean and bright and unmarked. NOTE that this is a larger volume, and there may be additional shipping charges on orders outside North America.

Hardcover/Hardback. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Large quarto-size (29cm high by 23cm wide), 402 pages (xliv, 358) plus a frontis from the artist's block and its tissue guard; all of the pages after the prelims being black-and-white plates showing more than a thousand images; publisher's black cloth with gilt titles on the spine and a device likewise on the front cover: clear glassine (plastic) dust-jacket printed with titles in orange. Very Good, no writing, mark-up, labels or other defacememts; undamaged jacket cockled at the spine (as usual for this type of jacket). Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free. Heavy book - extra charges will be needed for shipment outside the UK (packed weight 2.2 kg).

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated bibliographical work on the art of Robert Gibbings, limited to nine hundred and fifty copies. First edition. Limited to nine hundred and fifty copies. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and seventeen in-text engravings. Collated complete. One of the leaders of the revival of wood-engraving in the 1920s, Irish artist and author Robert Gibbings was director of the Golden Cockerel Press for nine years. The first part of the volume is a descriptive bibliography of the sixty-seven books illustrated by Gibbings; and the second lists his work as artist, writer, printer and publisher in chronological order, and also records some publications containing references to his work. There is a note on the printing methods of the Golden Cockerel Press, contributed by A. C. Cooper who was pressman throughout the period of Gibbings' direction. Written by A. Mary Kirkus, edited by Gibbings's partner Patience Empson, and John Harris. In the original quarter cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small mark to the panels. Light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. heavy, extra postage may be required. complete with mylar jacket. minimal wear on the boards. light usage marks. text is clear, neat and intact. very good copy.[SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Carefully wrapped on a protective acetate cover to prevent further damage.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Condition Notes: A touch faded at the spine of the binding, a decent copy otherwise; ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.4kg. overseas shipping will require additional postage . ### First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 11¼" x 8¾" (2.4 kg); pp (xliv) 350; Preface by Thomas Balston; Includes: List of books illustrated with engravings by Robert Gibbings; Black & white photographs (plates); Engravings; Colour frontispiece; Laid in publishers promotional ms; || 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 #196202 ||.

Empson, Patience (ed.). The Wood Engravings of ROBERT GIBBINGS with some recollections by the artist. xliv pp. text, incl. intro. by Thomas Balston, & hundreds of reproductions, 4to, cloth. London, Dent, 1959.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Full black cloth, gilt lettering to spine, gilt device to front. In custom plastic cover with title printed on front in red lettering. Top edge green. xliv, 355 pp. Fully illustrated in B&W, plus coloured woodcut frontis. Some yellowing to plastic cover, worse at spine, and some chips to spine ends and corners. Bookseller sticker to foot of front pastedown, former ownership stamp to head of ffep. Otherwise a near fine copy of the engravings of Irish wood engraver and sculptor Robert Gibbings.

4to, (285mm), xliv,355p. Colour frontispiece printed on Japanese paper & 1027 monochrome illustrations (including 19 photogravure plates of copper-engravings and sculpture). A very good copy in original cloth, gilt device on the front cover, glacine dustjacket lettered in red, slipcase. With a copy of the illustrated 6 page prospectus loosely inserted. HEAVY BOOK please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based and we may have to request additonal postage if the difference is too great to absorb. Overseas customers are advised to email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and charges.

, xliv, 355 pages, black and white engravings throughout, coloured frontispiece. Includes leaflet for Robert Gibbing Memorial Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum 1960 plus letter for press invitation to the event First Edition , spine faded with mark from label, dent to top front corner, slight fading and shadowing to front board, marks to endpapers from tape, library labels to endpapers, pages clean, good condition , black cloth, gilt title and illustration to spine, gilt monogram to front board, marbled endpapers, blue top edge , 29 cm x 23 cm Hardback ISBN:

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. FIRST. A FINE FIRST IN ACETATE DJ.

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good Acetate Wrapper. Condition Notes: Wrapper is edgeworn and marked although the printed titles to the upper panel remain strong. Edges of the text block lightly spotted; ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 2.4kg. overseas shipping will require additional postage . ### Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 11¼" x 8¾" (2.4 kg); pp (xliv) 355; Preface by Thomas Balston; Contains: Black & White Photographs; Wood Engravings [1000+]; Black & White Drawings; Prospectus Laid In; || 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 #177997 ||.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Limited. 183 pages (complete). Hand-numbered 793 of a limited edition of 900 copies. A stunning, shiveringly beautiful book for those interested in printing and books. The book has a clear cellophane protective cover. Stiff card covers with paper dustjacket. All are in wondrous condition. The contents were printed on Sommerville Laid and Zerkall Halbmatt papers. The wood engravings were printed from the wood, and the line blocks were made by Keene Engraving. The contents are able to make one gasp with pleasure. They are hand-pressed, the illustrations and other devices are tipped-in. The pages are gorgeous, creamy, thick, luxuriant in their elegance, very clean and very - as if brand new throughout. Oh happy book! fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Colour frontispiece on Japanese paper; 9 pages of half-tones and over 1000 wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. Full black buckram with RG's device blocked in gold on the front and gilt spine titling, PVC dust-jacket printed silk screen in red. Neat ownership signature. A fine copy with prospectus. As planned in 1953, this volume was to be Robert Gibbings's choice of the blocks which he liked best up to the total of five or six hundred. But when he died he had done little more than write the autobiographical fragment which is printed in the book. The editor, unable to guess at the engraver's choice, picked out a thousand blocks. (Kirkus 20).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. '.with some recollections by the artist'. xliv + 355pp, illustrated throughout. Original prospectus and order form, together with contemporary newspaper review, loosely inserted. Internally near fine. Very good hardback in publishers original black cloth with red lettering. Protected by (removable) clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. pp. 355. frontis & numerous illus. throughout (some full-page). original cloth (back cover bit rubbed). First Edition.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Robert Gibbings (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this densely illustrated title, in the original plastic dust wrapper. A first edition, with the original protective plastic dust wrapper, which is printed with title text. Featuring the work of Irish artist and author, who wrote titles on travel and natural history. Slotted into the work are two prints of Peter Reddick's Untitled Landscape, between protective card - both signed by Reddick, and one dated 1980. Th influential wood engraver Peter Reddick is most known for his illustrations in the work of Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope. He was a Gregynog arts fellow between 1979 and 1980. Also slotted inside is an additional print, small and unidentified, and a 1958 article on the death of Robeert Gibbings. Featuring a colour frontispiece and one-hundred-and-seventy-fourdouble-sided pages of monochrome illustration. Collated, complete Bound in original black cloth. In original transparent plastic dust wrapper. Externally, very smart. Moderate damp stains to boards and spine. Dust wrapper smart. Mild shelf wear. The odd mark to dust wrapper covers. Internally, firmly bound. Moderate strain between pp.350-351. Very mild cockling. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Very Good. book.

Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1959. In-4 rel. pleine toile noire de l'éditeur, titre doré au dos, frontispice, XLIV pp. de texte et 344 pp. offrant de très nbr. reprod. de gravures classées chronologiquement. /23F Bonne condition.

in-4to, 355 p., fully illustrated, with the original ill. prospectus, ex libris ?John-E. Ward?, orig. clothbound, transparent jackett with red lettering. Fine. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

First Edition. Large 8vo., original black cloth, spine lettered gilt and gilt insignia on front board, clear plastic dust jacket with red lettering. London, J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., A fine copy.

London, 1959. XLIV,355 pp. B/w plts. Hardcover.

First Edition. Illustrations One of 975 copies Fine copy in dust-wrapper.

Zustand: Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION ? GOOD HEAVY ITEM, 1959, Some wear/marks to boards, foxing/spotting/grub to fore edges, pages in good condition, shipped from the UK.