Robert seymour illus (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. First edition thus. Worn condition. Rebacked with new eps. Cover worn and marked. Sporadic marking. Missing 3 pages, covering illustrations 113-118. Mispagination: numbers 175-176 written as 195-196 (noted in errata). 250mm x 330mm (10" x 13"). 8pp. [180pp]. 174 [of 180] b/w sketches, two to a page. Punch satirist. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. Hardback board cover with black leather spine. …

First Edition. Publisher's block-bordered maroon cloth. Spine elaborately gilt titled and decorated. Professionally rebacked and strengthened with new endpapers; very impressively finished. A particularly sound copy of a now uncommon title. Scans available on request. ; 319 pages; Physical desc.: 319 p. ill., Subject: Fiction -- Fictional Characters -- England. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Publisher's block-bordered maroon cloth. Spine elaborately gilt titled and decorated. Professionally rebacked and strengthened with new endpapers; very impressively finished. A particularly sound copy of a now uncommon title. Scans available on request. ; 319 pages; Physical desc.: 319 p. ill., Subject: Fiction -- Fictional Characters -- England. 1 Kg. …

First Edition. Slim 12mo (16.5cm.); late 19th-century maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spine, original pictorial wrappers laid in; 35pp.; frontispiece and one additional plate by Robert Seymour. A hint of wear to cloth extremities, late 19th-century engraved ex-libris of a Gulielmi Gemmell, illustration signed in plate "E.G.," to front pastedown; mid-20th century ex-libris of Nathan Comfort Starr to front free endpaper; old bookseller's description tipped to p. [36] (blank). Very Good or better overall. Satirical verses inspired by Germany's annual Valpurgis night, first published in the London paper "Intelligence," with illustrations by Robert Seymour, best known for his contributions to the works of Dickens. BIBLIOTHECA DIABOLICA 1831, catalogued under the pseudonym "Facetiae," noting an 1833 edition illustrated by Cruikshank. At least one scholar tenuously attributes the text to author of the "Ingoldsby Legends" Richard Harris Barham based on stylistic similarities (see Graham E. Veritt, "English Caricaturists and Graphic Humorists of the Nineteenth Century" (1893), p. 216n).…