rev cobbold (9 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. reprint. Cloth, VG. 330pp+22pp publishers adverts, tipped in is a 4pp publishers advert for 'Marriage & Its Mysteries' one gather loose at the top stitch, spine faded & cheap paper yellowed, but still a fair copy on an uncommon edition. Fictionalised account of the life of Margaret Catchpole [ 1771 - 1841 ] who was convicted in Suffolk for horse stealing & transported to Australia in 1801. Her letters & accounts of life in early Australia are a valuable source of daily life in New South Wales. 450 grams.

12mo.; decorative cloth covered boards with beveled edges, hardcover; 303 pages plus advertisements; from the Lily Series #71; back hinge is cracked and front hinge is beginning to crack else good in edgeworn boards.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 2nd Edition. In Three Volumes Published by , Publisher, Grea t Marlborough Street, London, 1846. Book.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this illustrated work of historical fiction inspired by the Tudor style Freston Tower, a scarce to find work. A fascinating historical novel narrating the early days of Freston Tower, a red brick Tudor style folly located in Ipswich, Suffolk. The novel is based on the legend that the tower was build by Lord de Freston for his young daughter Ellen, with the intention that she should study a different subject each day on one of the folly's six stories.The first edition of this scarce work.Complete in three volumes.Written by the Reverend Richard Cobbold.Illustrated with six illustrated plates, collated and complete.Containing one page of publisher's adverts to the rear of Volume II, and sixteen pages of publisher's adverts to the rear of Volume III. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, shelf wear to the boards and bumping to the heads and tails of the spines and extremities. Darkening to the spines and fading to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound. A few small tidemarks to the frontispieces in each volume, and a few spots to the pages, which are otherwise bright and clean. Good. book.

Hardcover book. A fictionalized account of a servant girl transported to New South Wales in Australia for stealing a horse. That scene is the subject of the frontispiece of the 2nd volume, where Margaret is charmingly disguised as a boy. An interesting contemporary letter in a copy of the 1847 edition that was listed by a London bookseller said that Catchpole's family in Sydney burned every copy of the book they could find, and that her descendants number in the top ten in Sydney, including a judge in NSW named Innes. 8vo, 3 vols: xii, 316pp (&) (iv), 291pp (&) iv, 284pp, frontispiece & 6 aquatint plates, (LACKS frontis 3rd volume); no ads at rear. Early half calf and pebbled cloth boards, all edges marbled, some mild water marks on plates, o/w a very nice copy. Ferguson 4009. The charming aquatint plates are from drawings by the author. Includes a manuscript note at the end correcting the printed statement that Catchpole died in 1841, saying she was still alive in 1844. OCLC: 154615245.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover: Good, 20 x 14 cm, IV + 219 + 77 pl., English, 1st Edition, illustrations, book condition: Good The original hardcover shows damage, the binding is intact but somewhat pulled. With frontispiece and 35 page-sized woodcuts and 42 woodcuts in the text. Cobbold was dean of Ningpo for 8 years. The images referred to in the title are reproductions of line drawings depicting Chinese professions, such as street musicians, doctors, priests, and collectors of waste, hair, and paper. [This description may have been translated by AI.].

Pp. vi, 219. With frontispiece, 34 full page drawing illustrations and many textual illustrations. Near contemporary half calf on marbled boards, somewhat rubbed. Old ownership signature on title page. Some minor staining. First edition of a charming work about various Chinese professions each accompanied by a pen-and-ink etching by a native artist. Some examples: the lantern-seller, the blind fortune-teller, the opium smoker, the physiognomy, the scavenger, street beggars, etc. The author served as Archdeacon at the treaty port of Ningpo for a period of eight years. Cordier BS 90.

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In banded and textured green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine and decorations to ends, gilt figurative illustration to front and blind embossed design to rear. In very good condition. Original green cloth cover. Cloth split at top end of spine, small nicks at bottom end. Corners bumped. Small chip/hole to cloth on rear spine edge. Later endpapers (original endpapers removed.) Neat glue repairs to binding of first couple of pages. Some occasional handling/thumb marks to pages, some very minor light foxing to a couple of plates. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Scarce. iv + 219pp. (220pp.) Illustrated with 34 toned plates (numbered 1-30, includes 4 plates ?The Cookshop?, and frontis plate.) Many B&W woodcuts within text, including some full page, and one on very last page. (Scarce in original binding.).

First Edition. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 262; lithograph frontispiece and 101 lithograph plates drawn and engraved by Cobbold, plus 2 copper-engraved portraits; errata slip tipped in at the rear; 3pp. of index, apparently separately published, is laid in; nice copy in original green cloth-backed boards, paper label on spine. An unusual provincial illustrated book with charming lithographs after pen-and-ink sketches. Cobbold was a minor novelist and his wife, who apparently had a hand in the work, a minor dramatist. See DNB for entries on both.