thomas wright esq (6 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Later Edition. 304pp. From The Library of Old Authors series. Brown Cloth with embossed designs on the boards, and gold stamped lettering on the spine. The boards have loosened, but are still connected. Some general wear on the boards, and a little paint on the spine.The paper is free of marks. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall D4.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Half Leather.5 raised bands to spine and tooling. Gilt titles. Book has some very minor foxing. It is bumped and rubbed and has a little stretching, but is firm. Scuffed front board. All Pages intact. No Inscriptions. In the present Work the object of the Publishers has been to supply to the people of Cumberland and Westmoreland a complete and modern history of the two Counties. For postage outside NZ this volume weighs 3.1 kg and can be checked for its postage cost to your location at NZ Post Ratefinder We do not make a profit from postage.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Hardcovers. 2 VOLUME SET. 9" X 11". ORIGINAL 1836 PRINTING. FULL OF BEAUTIFUL FULL-PAGE STEEL ENGRAVINGS. Text/illustrations unmarked. Light stains/foxing spots on some pages. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Tearing on spines back-strip along cover hinges. Spines edge wear. Rear hinge on vol. 1 and front hinge vol. 2 cracked but bindings intact. Heavily used but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in half bound black leather, black cloth boards with 5 raised bands, gold gilt lettering and blind-stamped design to spine, no dustjacket as issued. 240pp. Marbled page edges. Fold-out colour map frontispiece, full page illustrations. Not library copy, no inscriptions, crease to rear endpaper. (55/1).

Three Quarter Leather. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. W.Bartlett (illustrator). First Edition. Single-volume edition. Engravings throughout; some with foxing to edge or edge darkening and last plates with a stain at the edge, slightly affecting the picture. Slight tearing to edge of title page at hinge and also of first page. Foxing to title page. Leather rubbed and with a couple of small tears top and bottom extremities of spine. Some wear to corners. Title label rubbed and a small slit developing from top of front external hinge. Spine has been reglued and there is a hole to mid spine. First page torn.

First Edition. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiv, 451, [1]; viii, 460; 2 engraved frontispiece portraits, 12 engraved plates and 300 wood engravings in the text; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spines; spine ends on volume I compromised with chips out, chip out of the top of the spine on volume II; both volumes slightly shaken; bindings bright and the text clean. This copy with the bookplates of Hugh W. Diamond, F.S.A., Surgeon; Stephen George Holland; and the Minnesota Historical Society (with release stamp), and small MHS stickers on spines. An interesting copy with a presentation in volume II to "H. W. Diamond, Esq. with the kind regards of the author, Thomas Wright." Also with a series of 7 autograph notes and letters tipped in, the first from Wright to Diamond, November 28, 1846 stating "I am very much interested in caricatures just now - in fact I am compiling a book on the subject . I am told that you have made a collection, and venture on the liberty of asking you if you would allow me to look them over some day . I should take it as a great obligation." The second letter is from William Smith (undated) to Diamond stating: "I forgot to mention this morning that Morgan comes on Tuesday next to look over the Gillrays and I shall be glad if you will meet him as we shall have something to do." The third letter is again from Wright to Diamond (undated) "I am much obliged to you for your kind note and invitation, which latter I should have accepted with great pleasure, but unfortunately I am engaged for next Sunday to a dinner at Kensington . I would like to take advantage of Sunday week to look at the caricatures . I will then tell you what I am doing on the subject." The remaining four letters are from Edward Hawkins (2), and William Smith (2), all on arranging viewings of the caricatures in Diamond's collection Hugh Diamond (1809-1886) was a "medical doctor, antiquarian, and collector of prints, [and] a prime example of a gentleman amateur who furthered the development of the new medium of photography. He made his first photograph in April 1839, only three months after Talbot's demonstration of the invention, was instrumental in founding the Photographic Society in 1853, and through publications and informal gatherings taught many photographers, including Henry Peach Robinson, to use both the calotype and the collodion processes" (metmuseum[dot]org). Stephen George Holland (1817-1908) "in his late teens founded Holland and Sherry cloth merchants probably through a connection with Holland and Sons. H and Sherry were pretty big, exporting £250,000 of cloth p.a. to Russia before the revolution and were still going strong in 2012. SGH was a rich man and his famous art collection including 10 Turners, 3 Gainsboroughs, Friths, Millais, Landseer, Constables, Corot, Cox etc. He died in 1908 when his collection was auctioned at Christie's South Kensington in June" (jjhc.info). William Smith (1808-1876) was a print-seller in London, until 1848; collector of prints and water-colours; officer of several artistic institutions; major donor to the British Museum's Department of Prints and Drawings; occasional adviser to the Royal Academy on purchases for and care of its print collection. Edward Hawkins (1780-1867) was a numismatist and antiquary, and Keeper (1826-60) of the Department of Antiquities, British Museum, which Department he had joined in 1825, after an earlier career as a banker. The British Museum purchased his collection of English medals from him on his retirement in 1860, and he also formed a large collection of English political caricatures, which was purchased by the British Museum in 1868.