sir william lyons (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 160 pages. cover fadedSidecars and sporty coachwork, SS to Jaguar, The XX story, Carriages and co mpacts, Racing I, Racing II, Class of the sixties, Export and Mergers. 1976.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / Second Print. Hardback copy in pictorial boards, no dustjacket. 155pp. B/w photographs. Not library copy, ink inscription to front pastedown and ffep, light fading to spine edge. (28/4).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 3rd Edition. 3rd ed ; 2nd printing ; 191 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portrait s ; 29 cm ; ISBN 9780854299621, 0854299629 ; OCLC 34409474 ; Previous edition: 1990 ; This new edition describes nearly every model the company has ever produced. It descibes the behind-the-scenes activities involved in the sad, but realistic takeover by Ford and how the company's fortunes have been turned around by the new management. ; black cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Forward by Sir William Lyons -- The Swallow -- The SS Marque -- The SS Jaguar -- The War and after -- The XK engine -- The XK evolves -- Jaguar in colour -- The E arrives -- The XJ Range -- The Legend Revived -- Into the nineties -- Jaguar competes -- Styling themes -- Afterword by Nick Scheele ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 40pp, colour photographs throughout text and full page, plastic comb binding, padded maroon boards with gilt title on the front, in very good condition with a small pen inscription on inside cover binding, and very minor fault at the bottom of 5 pages. A book describing and illustrating Daimler buses and their history, with text accommpanied by a multitude of colour photographs.

First edition, from the Knowsley library of Edward Smith Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775-1851). A politician and a naturalist, Stanley became one of the figureheads of the science of zoological classification, and was president of the Linnean Society of London from 1828 to 1834, as well as being president of the Zoological Society of London for twenty years. Stanley not only encouraged the reading of accounts of new species by chairing meetings of the two societies, but contributed many scientific papers himself to the proceedings of the Zoological Society and donated many specimens to its collections. His own collection in the Knowsley Museum is estimated to have included 20,000 mammals, birds, and lower vertebrates. This copy contains his armorial bookplate, and the shelf mark of the Back Library at Knowsley noted on the front free endpaper verso. It is also annotated at the head of the half-title "from Boone April 15th 1849", a reference to the London booksellers and publishers T. & W. Boone. The illustrator Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892) was described by Sir Joseph Hooker, the son of the author, as an "incomparable botanical artist" (Blunt, p. 224). "Fitch remains the most outstanding botanical artist of his day in Europe. He was the first draughtsman to produce really satisfactory drawings from dried herbarium specimens, and for this alone botanists in England would remain forever in his debt. He was always his own lithographer, and became a skilled exponent of the art" (Blunt, p. 226). Great Flower Books, p. 60, Nissen 918, and Pritzel 4230 (all erroneously dating this edition to 1846); not in Plesch. Wilfrid Blunt, The Art of Botanical Illustration: an illustrated history, 1950. Folio (300 x 233 mm). With 100 hand-coloured lithograph plates, tissue guards. Contemporary red pebble-grain morocco, rebacked with original spine laid down, raised bands, compartments lettered and richly decorated in gilt, double ruled gilt and blind border to sides, gilt roll on board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, blue silk bookmarker. Binding lightly scuffed, touch of wear to corners, contents clean and bright, plates vibrant: a very good copy.