pretty edward (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. S. R. Publishers, 1969. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint of 1849 firs edition. Book in very good condition in a very good dustjacket, with some wear and rubbing. Internally clean, previous owner's small label to ffe. Illustrated and folding map to rear. 256 pages.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Edward Pretty (illustrator). A very scarce copy of this illustrated work on the discoveries at the Roman Villa on the Borough Hill. Very scarce. From The Archaeologia Vol. XXXV. With a frontispiece, a folding map, and many in-text illustrations. Collated complete. A detailed and comprehensive study into the archaeological discoveries at the Borough Hill Roman villa, located on the north tip of Borough Hill. Written by Beriah Botfield, a British Member of Parliament representing Ludlow in Shropshire as a Conservative who was also a noted bibliographer, geologist and botanist. Illustrated by Edward Pretty, a British artist and illustrator. In the original green paper wraps. Externally, sound with light wear and the odd small crease to the extremities. Light marks to the boards with a small closed tear to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting. Further spotting and light age toning to the extremities. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Engraved frontispiece, nine plates, folding map, title page vignette and 13 woodcuts in the text. 8vo. [198 x 112 x 21 mm]. vi, [iv], 256 pp. Bound in the original purple cloth, the covers with a blind blocked border and the front blocked in gilt, yellow endleaves. (A little faded and slightly bumped). Previously published in 1847. A very good copy. With the bookseller's label of Dorman of Northampton and bookplate of Lady Davy. Jane Kerr (1780-1855) married Shuckburgh Ashley Apreece in 1799 but he died in 1807. His widow then made her mark on society, as her distant cousin Walter Scott said, by taking "the blue line, and by great tact and management actually established herself as a leader of literary fashiom". In 1811 she moved from Edinburgh to London and was hotly pursued by Humphrey Davy. They married in 1812, three days after Davy received a knighthood. Her wealth enabled him to retire from routine work and devote himself to chemical researches. The marriage "was not a happy or comfortable union, each party having been rather too accustomed to adulation" (ODNB), but they were together when Sir Humphrey died in Geneva in 1829. Lady Davy continued to travel and entertain and Scott wrote of her "as a lion-catcher, I would put her against the world". She was buried at St. Sepulchre's Church in Northampton.

24 aquatint plates: 6 plates in 3 states (uncolored, partially colored and fully colored), 2 plates in 2 states (uncolored line and uncolored aquatint), 2 color plates (including a color chart and one plate half colored, half uncolored), as issued. Oblong small folio. The author served as the drawing master at Rugby School and here offers lessons illustrated with progressive plates of flowers and floral arrangements. "The necessity of an Improved Essay on Flower Painting is obvious. The present Work is offered to the Public; and, it is hoped, may claim some degree of notice. The difficulties of this art, principally at the beginning, is the management of shadows; which in the present work is explained by several lessons on Indian Ink, or Neutral Tint [i.e. the uncolored plates in two states], continuing progressively till arrived at finished groupes [i.e. the plates in three states: uncolored, partially colored and fully colored]" (Introduction). The plates include imprints dated 1810, with the date on the title seemingly altered in manuscript to 1812. Scarce, with only six examples cited by OCLC. Not in Abbey Original brown paper covered boards with red morocco lettering piece on the upper cover, rebacked with calf. A bit worn at edges and corners, trimmed close touching imprints on some of the plates, minor finger soiling 24 aquatint plates: 6 plates in 3 states (uncolored, partially colored and fully colored), 2 plates in 2 states (uncolored line and uncolored aquatint), 2 color plates (including a color chart and one plate half colored, half uncolored), as issued. Oblong small folio.