W h williams intro (3 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. A facsimile edition ofScriblerus Club member John Gay's poem, Trivia, illustrated throughout. A facsimile of John Gay's poem, originally published in 1716. In the publisher's original decorative white cloth binding. A poem by John Gay, an English poetanddramatistand member of theScriblerus Club. The poem, written inheroic couplets, is loosely based onVirgil'sGeorgics, yet attains aHoratiansatirical manner. Illustrated with a frontispiece, facsimile original title page, and 15 plates. Collated, complete. With an introduction and notes by William Henry Williams. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Fading to spine and top edge, with the odd light mark to boards. Offsetting to free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Decorated Cloth. 1st edition thus. First edition thus. The publisher's 'Endymion' series, printed at The Chiswick Press. Original pictorial cloth boards decorated and lettered in gilt, many b&w illus by W.Heath Robinson (both full page and text illus), title page printed in red and black, illus endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, pp xxxvii, 225. Previous owner's signature, dated 1901, some lightly pencilled notes reverse of front free endpaper, otherwise clean. Rubbed and frayed to the top of spine, very small rubbed loss bottom edge, corners lightly lightly bumped and rubbed. Good condition. Beautiful edition of Poe's poetry (and some prose), lavishly illustrated by Heath Heath Robinson. Both the illustrations and the binding are in Arts and Crafts style. 'Endymion' series, scarce thus. Ilus. W. Heath Robinson (illustrator).…