Thomas j wise ed (10 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1933. No Edition Remarks. 389 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front free endpaper. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. …

Zustand: Fair. 1944. First Edition. 591 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Black cloth with decorations. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Black and white photographic plates throughout. Pages and plates are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Fraying to cloth to spine. Stickers to both boards. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Lg. 8vo. Red-brown cl., gilt lettering, lines to backstr., sl. dulled. Name on front pastedown. Frontis. Illus. Xx, 389pp. incl. notes, index. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. blue cloth gilt lettering dust jackets two volumes 329,263 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped quarto.

New ed. Some scattered light foxing; slight wear at head & foot of spine. Edition limited to 500 copies, reprinted from the original edition of 1822 & published for the Shelley Society. Used - Very Good. VG in original paper covers in modern card cover Used - Very Good. VG in original paper covers in modern card cover.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. In lightly soiled djs (in protectors) ; Blue cloth hardcovers, Ruskin's portrait on frontispiece of Vol. 1. Appendices, notes, index. Vol 1: xxviii + 329 pp. Vol 2: xii + 263 pp. Reprint of 1893 edition; large 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A smart two volume set of works by nineteenth century polymath John Ruskin. A two volume set. In the publisher's original green cloth bindings. A set of works by John Ruskin, an Englishpolymath awriter, lecturer,art historian,art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of theVictorian era. Including: (1891) Sesame and Lilies: Two Lectures. The twelth edition in original form. With a new preface. The work is classic nineteenth-century statement on the natures and duties of men and women. (1895) The Harbours of England. Edited by Thomas J. Wise. With thirteen illustrations by J.M.W. Turner. Collated, complete. Including harbours such as Dover, Ramsgate, Plymouth, Catwater, Portsmouth and Sheerness. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spines, with light rubbing to joints. Spotting and age toning to endpapers. Ink inscription to front free endpaper of 'Sesame and Lilies', with the rear free endpaper torn. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with light spotting to the front. Offsetting to final page of 'Sesame and Lilies'. Very Good. J.M.W. Turner (illustrator). book.…

One of just 100 copies on fine paper. Uncut in original printed boards, lightly worn. Fine. London 1886. 8vo. viii + xii + 62 pp. + 8 pp. (advertisments). Thomas James Wise (1859-1937) was a bibliophile who collected the Ashley Library, now housed by the British Library, and later became known for the literary forgeries and stolen documents that were resold or authenticated by him. He parlayed his international reputation as a collector of books and an exposer of forgers and forgeries into a career in creating and selling forgeries himself. Wise privately printed nearly 300 works of English authors, some of which were debunked as forgeries by Carter and Pollard ("An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets", 1934). This proved that a large number of rare first edition pamphlets from 19th century authors which depended solely on Wise's published works for their authenticity were fakes. Wise and fellow bibliophile Harry Buxton Forman had been involved in the fabrication and sale of many of the same pamphlets to collectors; their crimes are generally regarded as one of the most notorious literary scandals of the twentieth century. Shortly after Wise's death his Library was sold to the British Museum by his widow for £66,000. The works were compared with the British Museum's former collection at which point it was discovered that over 200 book leaves were missing and 89 of these matching leaves were found in the Wise volumes.…

Zustand: Very Good. Limited Edition [30]. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. Tipped in cutting on paste-down of volume I. 210mm x 130mm (8" x 5"). ix, 74pp; vii, 69pp. Privately printed on hand made paper. Brown/gilt hardback cloth cover with bevelled edges.

Gilt Decorated Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Slipcase. Limited Edition. Limited Facsimile Edition. 3 volumes. Full white Nigerian goatskin with elaborate gilt-stamped decoration and lettering to boards and spines based on Walter Crane's original design, within a maroon silk covered wooden slipcase; top edges gilt. Very minor spots to the fore-edges; otherwise all in fine condition, clean and bright, including the heavy slipcase. A beautiful facsimile edition with Walter Crane's incredible black & white illustrations throughout. Numbered 588 of 1000 limited edition copies published by The Folio Society from the originally published George Allen editions printed at The Chiswick Press, 1894-7. This is a very heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. 4to. Limited Edition. Crane, Walter (illustrator).…