wallis john h (5 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges, small damage to spine ends and corners. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. A guide to reservoirs, Lakes and Other still waters in England and Wales.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Simeon H. Parsons, James Ross, John Franklin Cooke, Brainard Childs, Boorne & May, Bailey Bros., Bailey & Neelands, William McFarlane Notman, John George Parks, Louis-Prudent Vallée (illustrator). A remarkable photograph album documenting an 1891 Canadian and Michigan journey, by Arthur Betram Ridley Wallis (1864-1931). Three weeks after graduating from Oxford with a Master of Fine Arts degree, Wallis, who often used the initials A.B.R., left Liverpool on August 4th, 1891, on the SS Caspian, bound for St. John's Newfoundland. On the title page of the album, he described his trip as "a short journey through Canada and into Michigan U.S., undertaken by A.B.R. Wallis in 1891 with no object of any kind whatever". The first eight leaves, out of twenty-six, of the album are annotated with his wry sense of humour. Wallis arrived in St. John's on August 12th, "containing among other curiosities all that is left of ABRW after 8 days on the ocean". The first two photographs are of the harbour and town of St. John's, one by the photographer Simeon H. Parsons. From St. John's, Wallis travelled to Halifax, Niagara Falls, Sault Ste. Marie, the Michigan town of Escabana, Port Arthur (Thunder Bay), Calgary (represented by a photo of the celebrated Blackfoot runner Deerfoot), the Canadian Rockies, Vancouver, back to the Port Arthur region, Montreal, and then Quebec City and vicinity. The identified photographers include Simeon H. Parsons (St. John's), James Ross (Halifax), John Franklin Cooke (Port Arthur), Bernard "Brainard" Freeman Childs (Sault Ste. Marie), Boorne & May (Canadian Rockies), Bailey Bros, Bailey & Neelands, and William McFarlane Notman (Vancouver), John George Parks (Montreal), and Louis-Prudent Vallée (Quebec). While there are five vernacular photographs out of 51 total, the large majority are by professional photographers that he collected enroute. There are also three engravings of Ottawa, Portage La Prairie, and Winnipeg, clipped from the 1891 Canadian Pacific magazine. One group portrait of four men that has a differently dressed man in a grey suit, is tentatively identified as Wallis, based on a glancing resemblance to a man in side profile in the Great Lakes region. Many of the photographs are large format. Some interesting images include whaleback barges on the Great Lakes, and firefighting and tobogganing in Montreal. After his trip, Wallis became a barrister in London. The Victoria & Albert Museum contains 79 brass rubbings by Wallis. Album half-bound, 9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches (24 x 31 cm), spine restored, one leaf detached, a few others partially detached, five pages with missing photographs. Browning and tears to some photographs, dampstaining to leaves. Booklabel from Partridge & Cooper, 192, Fleet Street, on inside cover. Good plus overall. A detailed summary of the photographs, annotations, and photographers will be included.

Zustand: Good. 6 vols. 8vo. 14 x 23.5cm. Ca. 432 engraved titles and plates, some foxing, bookplates removed from pastedown, contemporary half navy morocco, rubbed. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1324012951.Notes:Introd. signed: T[homas] M[oule]Each print accompanied by one or more leaves of letterpress, by MoulePublisher varies. Vols. 2-5: Published by Sherwood, Neely and Jones and Thomas Moule; v. 6: Published by Sherwood, Jones and Co. and Thomas Moule."The work will be . printed in royal octavo . a few copies will be printed in royal quarto, with proofs on India paper"--ProspectusOriginally issued in 72 monthly pts. Title page in first pt. of each vol.; engraved t.p. in last pt. of each vol.; portion of introd. in last pt. of each vol.; list of subscribers and "Address" by Neale in pt. 72Illustrations: 432 prints (incl. added title pages) : etching ; full-page. By H. Hobson, Miss E. Byrne, J.C. Varrall, T. Matthews, S. Lacey, W. Radclyffe, R. Acon, W. Wallis, F.B. Hay, T. Barber, T. Jeavons and others, after Neale.

Overall dimensions 59 x 58.5 cm, diameter 55.5 cm. Circular map of the environs of London, showing the extents from Ware down to Dorking and Tilbury across to Windsor. Full original colour in block and outline: the city shaded in dark red, the county shaded in different colours and parks and woodlands coloured in green. The five mile radius from St. Paul's marked out, after which thin concentric lines radiate out at one mile intervals up to border. A number of roads leading out of London shaded and their distances from the edges of city marked along route. The whole dissected into fifteen sections and backed onto linen. Minor creasing at some section edges. Small brown spot to upper left corner, otherwise an attractive example. The Wallis family firm moved to 42 Skinner Street in 1813. Edward Wallis entered into partnership with his father, John, in the same year. On John Wallis' demise in 1818 Edward assumed full control of the business. This an intermediate issue, Howgego notes editions with John Wallis' imprint up to 1802 and one subsequent edition with an attributed date of c. 1845. This example certainly published prior to the latter date as none of the railways are shown. Cf. Howgego, No. 176. This edition not listed by Boyle, cf 16 for the first state.