Stokes h sewell (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fair. Frontispiece, x p. + 5 plates. 26 cm. Engravings of: Vale of Lanherne, Nunnery of Lanherne and Church of St. Mawgan, Ancient Cross in Mawgan Churchyard, Tregurrion Bay, the Norwegian's Rock, The Eyry. Disbound. Consists of half title, frontispiece, title page, Contents, List of illustrations, 5 plates.…

Later edition, later printing thus. Good with wear to the boards. Prospectus for the book laid in. Limited foxing.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. A beautifully illustrated second edition of this collection of poems by Henry Sewell Stokes. Second edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and five plates. Collated complete. A collection of poems, including: The Land's End, To a Bee, The Rose of The Day, and Home to My Love. Written by Henry Sewell Stokes, a British poet and schoolfellow of Charles Dickens. Sewell Stokes later befriended both Tennyson and Robert Stephen Hawker. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and bumping to the extremities. The odd light mark to the board. Library marking to tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown and Cornwall County Office stamps to front endpaper. Good. C. Haghe; J. G. Philp (illustrator). book. …

Later edition, later printing thus.Very good with loose frontispiece & title page. Limited foxing.

8vo, 2 pp, 33 lines. Good, on lightly aged and creased paper. An interesting letter, written by a former policeman to a former probation officer, on the subject of the latter's book 'Come to Prison: A Tour through British Prisons today' (Longmans, 1957), about which the former has written a negative review. Begins by praising Stokes' 'really generous letter, written at what cost in self-control I can only dimly imagine'. When Hewitt 'read the published review', he thought 'that it was still on the whole unfair'. 'I hate reviewing really, and am a bad reviewer. Objectivity eludes me, and I pontificate, as if I were the only man in the world with the knowledge of the subject.' He claims what he 'really thought' was that 'the name of Sewell Stokes commands respect'. He remembers 'how very impressed G. W. Stonier was years ago with Court Circular, though I thought that book was unfair!' He is writing 'an Observer "profile" ' of Sir Lionel Fox, whom they both admire. Concludes 'I'm afraid your very readable book will be a success, despite the price!'.…

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1853. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Blue embossed cloth, gilt title to spine. Yellow endpapers. B/w plates from stone engravings, tissue guards. Spine and corners worn. Cloth a bit grubby. Some foxing. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Haghe, C. & Philip, J.G. (illustrator). …