preface andrew lang (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited edition of just 550 copies. Full vellum hardback with gilt lettering and gilt rules. Showing well, sharp corners, no splits. Contents clean and tidy, just showing a couple of labels at the endpaper. Size: 195mm x 130mm; collation: pp. lxxxvi; 65. Illustrated. Scarce.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Robert Anning Bell (illustrator). Tales from Shakespeare, Lamb, Charles and Mary; Preface by Andrew Lang. Published by The Copp Clark Co. Limited, 1904, Toronto. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 372pp., titles bordered in floral green pattern; 15 black and white illustration by Robert Anning Bell. Dark green cloth boards with gilt illustrated front and spine, top edge gilt, sewn signatures. Contents are clean and free of markings with fold and small tear to rear free blank endpaper; hinges lightly cracked and weakened; loss of cloth to tail and head of spine, rubbing to corners. In very good condition. Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, intended "for the use of young persons" while retaining as much Shakespearean language as possible. Mary Lamb was responsible for retelling the comedies and Charles the tragedies. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish writer and scholar who edited and published hundreds of fairy tales from around the world in his famous colour fairy book series (The Blue Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, etc.). Robert Anning Bell (1863-1933) was a British painter, sculptor, stained glass designer, illustrator, and teacher.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Robert Anning Bell (illustrator). First Thus. This is a Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original green gilt decorated boards to both spine and upper cover.One neat former inscription to the front endpaper.half title page.Illustrated with a frontispiece (Romeo and Juliet) and a further 14 black and white drawings by Robert Anning Bell.Top edge of the book is in gilt with other deckled edges to the pages.Some spotting is noted to the endpapers and pre-lims and a little sporadic foxing within the text itself.Looks like the book has been rebacked at some stage with original spine laid down and there is some staining to the rear cover of the book.With 24 page Introduction by Andrew Lang.Only a light cracking to the front gutter hinge but binding remains firm with no loose leaves etc.8vo 372pp First Thus [1899].

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback copy bound in half green leather, marbled boards with raised bands and gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 420pp. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard, full page b/w plates, b/w illustrations within text. Gold gilt top page edges. Not library copy, no inscriptions, bookplate to front pastedown, few marks to half title page. (8/1).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. ND, 1898 (WorldCat). Excellent and entertaining selection of essays collected from the pages of 'Literature' magazine. Stock lightly toned but otherwise in VG order throughout. Green cloth boards with bevelled edges and gilt titling to front and spine. This faded, boards only lightly marked and thus a nice copy of a scarce book. 8vo. 158pp.

Gilt Decorated Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Bell, Robert Anning (illustrator). Reprint. Early reprint, still with gilt decoration and top edge gilt. xxviii, 372 pp. Green cloth. Short tear at head of spine and minor wear to rest of extremities. Foxing to text block edges and scattered spotting to edges of leaves. Decorated title-page. With frontis and fourteen full-page illustrations by Robert Anning Bell. 8vo. Illustrated.

Boards. Preface by Andrew Lang (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st ed., Limited to 700 copies, 8vo., 2 vols, pp.x, 464; pp.iv, 302, ccxl (appendices), numerous illus to both vols, pictorial half-title and col folding map at end of volume one, col plate and folding b/w plate in volume two, errata slip tipped-in, contemporary signature (Lawrence Bibby ?) to t.p. of each volume, scattered foxing, heavier at end pages, publisher's gilt titled cl bds., sl. rubbed and bumped o/w very good condition One of the great works on the habits, history and ethnology of the Borneo natives based chiefly on a collection of the notes of Hugh Brooke Low who had spent 18 years in the Sarawak Government Service studying Dayak and Kayan. It provides great detail of the people including their physique, marriage, religion, music, language, festivals, dancing, daily life, fire, food, narcotics, agriculture, land tenure, domestic animals, head-hunting, human sacrifices and cannibalism.