Sheringham george illus (5 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. cover shows minor wear and rubbing, pages are lightly tanned and foxed.

LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION. No. 55/195. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 4to, xv + 174 pp.; quarter-bound in white leather roll-tooled in gilt & green cl bds, spine lettered in gilt; teg, frontis., plates, illus.; VG+ (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning to pg edges; light tanning & soiling to eps & prelims/terminals; bookplate to front pastedown; sl wear to gutters).…

Boards. 1st Edition. 1st ed., royal octavo, pp.xxvii, 106, b&w fronts, title page illustration, profusely illustrated with full page colour collotype plates by painter and theatre designer, George Sheringham, includes illustration of cover of the first 1794 edition., minimal foxing to ffep, lightly bumped cnrs., gilt titled label to spine and front board in the seldom seen original art nouveau style decorated cloth boards. Near fine condition The three-act comic opera, Duenna, mostly composed by Thomas Linley the elder and his son, was first performed in 1775 at Convent Garden Theartre. The english libretto was by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. George Sheringham (Illus.) (illustrator).…

First Thus. First printing of the Sheringham-illustrated edition. Small quarto (26cm). Cream buckram, titled in gilt, decoratively printed in colors on front cover; pictorial endpapers; color frontispiece and 22 inserted leaves of 2- and 4-color plates. A tight, straight, and attractive copy, the spine just a shade darkened but still Near Fine. First illustrated edition of Beerbohm's celebrated modern fable, first published in The Yellow Book in 1896. Sheringham's illustrations, though somewhat anachronistic, still manage to capture the late-Decadent flavor of the tale.…

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1931 Original green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine; Bevelled edges; Upper edge bue; Original illustrated green dust jacket with an emblem of a fly-rod; frontispiece with full colour illustration of various flies; features vibrant four colour illustrated plates (three of which have tissure guards) and eight black and white engraving plates; pp. [6], v-x, [2], xiii, [1], xv , [3], 3-173, [3]; dust wrapper roughly price clipped; head of dust wrapper spine shows slight nicking; slight chip at foot of dustwrapper spine and closed tear; bruising to head of spine; offsetting to endpapers; text block near fine; otherwise very good. A scarce and desirable rare reference book (even including a musical score), The Book of The Fly-Rod is one of the early twentieth century's most revered titles devoted to the art of fly fishing. Inlcudes a chapter by Arthur Ransome , prominent author of the Swallows and Amazons children's series.…