shaw cuthbert (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In.

First Edition. Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 2 preliminary leaves, vii-xv, 287, [1] pages color frontispiece, illustrations (music) 23 color plates 21 cm. Notes; With half title. Subjects; Operas ; Stories, plots, etc. Operas. Opéras Histoires, intrigues, etc. Genres; Illustrated. Stories, plots, etc. 3 Kg.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Shaw, Byam (illustrator). circa 1938. Very good condition with no wrapper. From Mozart to Mascagni their plots history and music. Red imitation leather covers with gilt titles and vignettes. 287 pages. 24 colour plates. Some slight rubbing to cover edges. Prize plate to front pastedown. Gilt school stamp (attractive) to front cover. Light page browning to endpapers. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!

Hard back binding in publisher's original nutmeg brown cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back, blind stamp to the front cover. 8vo. 8'' x 6¼''. Contains (xv), 288 pp with twenty-four full-page single-sided drawings in colour by Byam Shaw. Ink message to the front free end paper 'To Hazel | Spencer Hayes - Jan 17th 1944 | All the best.' Light handling marks to the covers, spotting to the end papers and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. OPERA.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: Good. NO DUST JACKET. Aged feel, with bumps, marks, scratches, fading and tanning to hard board. Foxing/tanning at text blocks. Fading at page edges. College sticker at inside front hard board. Text good and legible.

First Edition. Good copy in the original publisher's gilt-blocked and blind-bordered cloth, edges very slightly toned. Some wear and tear as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression.Library marks remain. Physical description; vol. I (only): 536 pages ; 22 cm. Contents; Includes a memoir of Thaer and a bibliography of his writing. Subjects; Agriculture. Agriculture ; Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3 Kg.

Leather. Zustand: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. An anthology of scarce early edition poems by Theophilus Swift, Cuthbert Shaw and William Combe. Comprising two poems by Theophilus Swift: 'The Temple of Folly, in Four Cantos' (ESTC T49932) and 'Poetical Address to His Majesty' (ESTC N40261). 'The Temple of Folly' is the first edition and retains the half-title and engraved frontispiece. It is very scarce and only ten copies are held institutionally worldwide. 'Poetical Address' is also a first edition and retains the half-title.The third poem to this anthology is Cuthbert Shaw's 'Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady who Died in Child-Bed'. It is a third edition, of this work which is written about the death of Shaw's wife Ann Rivers during childbirth. It is Shaw's best known poem and brought him to the attention of George Lyttelton, a fellow widower who wrote a similar poem on the death of his own wife. The ODNB notes that this work was still avidly read in the early 19th century. ESTC reference no T41389 for this work, which is held in five locations institutionally in the U.K.The final two pamphlets are by William Combe and are 'The Diabo-Lady' and 'The Diaboliad'. ESTC reference numbers T31773 and T112377. Both of these volumes have been bound without the half-titles. 'The Diaboliad' is lacking the final text leaf and advertisement leaf.To 'The Diabo-Lady' a prior owner's inscriptions to the margins identify the character's real identities. These satires are what brought Combe his popularity. Although, 'The Diabo-Lady' is frequently attributed to a group of authors rather than Combe.A scarce collection of poems, which provide a picture of society in the eighteenth century. In a half calf binding. Externally, sound, with rubbing to the spine and extremities. Small loss to the head of spine. Prior owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright. Tidemark to the frontispiece of 'Temple of Folly' and to the title page of 'Monody' which is faded. Closed tear to the inner margin of 'The Diabo-Lady' not affecting the text. 'The Diabo-Lady' and 'The Diaboliad' contain contemporary annotations naming the characters' real identities. Occasional light spots to pages. Good. book.

First Edition. First edition thus, limited to 575 copies, 8vo, pp. 165, [1]; original half tan cloth over green cloth boards, green paper label; corners and top edge rubbed, edges toned, label slightly chipped, owner's signature, very good. Inscribed to the poet and professor of English, Lascelles Abercrombie, from the editor Eric Partridge, on front free endpaper. This is Partridge's second book, and the first published in England.

Disbound. Zustand: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A scarce copy of Cuthbert Shaw's poetry written after the death of his young wife in 1768. A scarce work. This work is a poem that Cuthbert Shaw wrote after the death of his young wife in 1768. The poem became very successful when it was published as it caught the tastes of the day. Shaw was an English poet and actor, who published his first poem, 'Liberty', in 1756. He also wrote 'The Four Farthing Candles', 'The Race', and 'An Elegy on the Death of Charles Yorke, the Lord Chancellor'. With an illustrated title page, one plate, and one engraved tailpiece. Disbound, missing the boards, with evidence of having been previously bound. Externally, a little marking to the front and rear wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with only the odd spot, mostly to the illustrated title page and plate. Good. book.