Theodore e hook (11 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.

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

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

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

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

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. "Author of 'Sayings and Doings''.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A splendid Victorian tinted litho portrait. From Maclise originals published between 1830-1838, these reprints were published in 1898. Mounted and ready to frame. "Author of 'Sayings and Doings'" is written underneath this fine characteristic portrait of Hook, with printed signature.…

4 S., 1 gest. Frontispiz, xii, 452 S., Leinenband der Zeit mit Gold- und Blindprägung, (Ecken teils bestossen, die letzten Blatt wasserfleckig) Bentley's Standard Novels and Romances, Sprache: englisch.

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine engraved antique portrait. Mounted and ready to frame. Decorative, attractive and unusual. A splendid opportunity to purchase an antique engraved portrait. c. 1880.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. First edition. A scarce first edition set of Hook's mid ninteenth-century novel. First Edition. Publishers original paper covered boards. Complete in three volumes. Volume I features a portrait frontispiece. With half titles to each volume. Theodore Edward Hook (22 September 1788 24 August 1841) was an English man of letters and composer, and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street Hoax in 1809. In the remaining 23 years of his life he wrote 38 volumes, besides articles, squibs and sketches. His novels have frequent passages of racy narrative and vivid portraiture. They include Maxwell (1830), a portrait of his friend the Revevent E. Cannon; Love and Pride (1833); the autobiographic Gilbert Gurney (1836) and Gurney Married (1838); Jack Brag (1837) and Peregrine Bunce (1842). His last novel was Births, Marriages and Deaths (1839). In quarter cloth bindings with paper covered boards. Externally, sound, rubbed in places with a few marks. Chipping to the spine labels. Three boards held by the cords only. Internally, generally firmly bound although the first few pages of volume I are working loose, with the frontispiece detached but present. Some light foxing to the first and last few pages but otherwise generally clean with just the odd spot or mark. Marginal tidemark to frontispiece. Good. None (illustrator). book.…