Spratt george (5 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Unbound. Zustand: Fine. Sixteen identical greeting cards (blank inside) with blank envelopes. Featuring the art of male midwife George Spratt who is best known for his "personifications," in which a person is made up from the tools of their trade or the objects they are normally associated with. Here a man made of various items found used by an apothecary including a pestle and mortar, a measuring cylinder, bottles of treatments, and boxes of pills. A pill cutter also forms part of his coat. …

, iv 1-332 pages, illustrated with coloured plates throughout, First Edition , cover is lightly rubbed, worn at the spine and corners, chipped at the head and tail with a tear across a quarter of the depth from the top, the hinges are cracked but held, the binding is loose but held, missing leaf 39/40 (Rosa Centifolia), a book plate to the front free-end paper, pencil inscription, the plates are beautiful and bright, the book is in fair condition , bound in shot green cloth with gilt ruling and titles to the spine, red speckled edges quarto 22.5 x 14cm Hardback ISBN.…

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. First American Edition. Lithographs, with overlays; colored; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1848 Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. , Philadelphia. "First American edition from the fourth and greatly improved London edition". There were at least two ealier American printings in 1847 by Wagner & McGuigan and by Thomas, Cowperthwait. Bound in a later 19th century full calf with red morocco title label brightly lettered in gilt to spine. Soundly bound with contents complete, including the subscriber's lists at front and the single page ad at rear. Including the tissue garded frontis there are 21 full page lithograhped plates, most with mechanical overlays and hand colored with tissue guards. At leat one plate has a tissue guard integral between the colored overlay leaves. Table I. B. - one of the non overlay lithographs with 4 figures of the pelvis - had apparently come loose from the book and has some light furring at the edges; it isreinserted on a heavier paper stub in what appears to be a repair from some decades ago. The front edge was also backed with a heavier paper strip to reinforce a short closed tear in the front margin. All the overlays are present and in very good handling order with only light evidence of use and prior viewing at the folds. The only tissue guard missing is for the reinserted plate I. B. Tissue guard for the frontis lithograph is well foxed with some offset foxing to the title page. . Surface of lithographs are generally bright and clean, though the blank reverse side of many plates are foxed with some offset foxing and toning to the facing page of text. Bookplates of two prior owners mounted to front pastedown - Mrs. Elliot Colburn Low and Leonard J. Schiff. Binding sound but some early tenderness in the front hinge to the top few inches of the external joint. Leather with mild surface furring at front edges and a shallow surface abrasion rear board adjacent to the tail. Altogether a rather well preserved example of this extraordinary color plate book on obstetrics and midwifery. VG . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.…