Sir robert birley (10 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [1], 44 p. : plate, facsim. ; 23 cm. Subject; Eton College. Library Catalogs. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Upper cover slightly marked, frontispiece and plates rather damp-marked. Signed by the author on the title-page. Paper designed as a "pendant" to the exhibition "Printing and the Mind of Man". Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: As New. 1971. Paperback. Africa. 29 pp. A very nice copy. First edition copy. . . .

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. A little spotted at fore-edge.

First Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 28 pages; Physical desc. : 28 p. , [9] p. Of plates : facsims. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references. Subject: Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- Addresses, essays, lectures. Freedom of the press -- History -- Great Britain. 1 Kg. …

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Privately printed at Oxford University Press, Oxford, [1982?] 73 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; Original publisher's cream thin card wraps with title in black and three red coats of arms. The Eton headmaster. Contributors include Oliver Van Oss Sir Walter Oakeshott Nigel Nicholson Otto Fisher David Astor Kim Maclean Sir William Rees-Mogg Conrad Dehn John Hunter Alan G. Thomas F.E. Bell Professor Dr. Wolfgang Clemen Sir Peter Tennant Dame Lilo Milchsack John Kane-Berman Alan Paton Professor G.R. Bozzoli Tamsanga Wilkinson Kambule Sheena Duncan Miriam Toba Dakile Revd R. Elliot Kendall Randolph Vigne C.J. Driver Nicholas Welsh Franz Auerbach Anne Yates Raymond Tucker Revd Aelred Stubbs Mary Benson Moira Henderson Marjory Clifford Phyllis Murphy Brian Rees Notes: "Festschrift in honour of Robert Birley"--Page 1 A few faint marks and slight handling wear otherwise sound clean very good.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Undated, but circa 1972. Duplicated typescript, stapled as issued. Staples a little rusty, covers a little spotted. Inscribed by the author to Reynolds Stone, "from Robert Birley at Litton Cheney, 29-30 April, 1972. (1204 - Lideton, the tun on the Hlyde, the roaring stream. How sensible of Ralph Cheyne to hold it in the late fourteenth century)"; with his autograph corrections on most pages, additional manuscript notes on pp. 2, 12, 17, and extensive manuscript note (on "Henry I and the Lampreys") on the rear cover. Humphrey Stone, in his biography of his father Reynolds, recalls Robert Birley coming to stay at Litton Cheney: "He was delighted that the one book he couldn't get from the London Library was in his bedroom - Boswell Stone's Shakespeare, written by Reynolds' great-uncle, who lived near Bridport. Birley had gone to school in south Dorset and had walked over every inch of the region as a boy. My mother described Reynolds reading the lesson in church, something his father always did, and observed Birley listening, 'his huge frame (6'6") crumpled up in a huge ball, hand propping up his face, fingers on nose - I take a photo of this aspect of him after Matins.'.". Inscribed by Author(s). …

Leather. Zustand: Fine. First edition. A beautifully bound full vellum example of Percy Bate's study of Scottish portrait painters, one of only twenty-five very scarce copies printed on Japanese vellum. A very scarce work.375 copies of this work were produced, with this being no. 18 of only 25 copies printed on Japanese vellum.In handsome full vellum binding.Illustrated with sixty-one plates complete with captioned tissue guards. Collated, complete.With examples of portraits from such Scottish artists as Sir James Guthrie, Sir Geo. Reid, Oswald Birley, Robert Brough and others.The introduction is the work of Percy H. Bate, Secretary of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine arts. In a full vellum binding, with extensive gilt detailing. Externally, excellent, with vellum lightly age toned, and with light spotting to rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine. Sir James Guthrie; Sir Geo. Reid; Oswald Birley; Robert Brough et al (illustrator). book.…