Ward sir edward (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. Without Text leaf.

First Edition. nd c. 1940. VG/G+. 4to. original grey coarseweave cloth (prize bookplate & bookseller's small label to front endpapers, endpapers tanned, cloth edges a little browned) in dustwrapper (extremities worn with some loss); unpaginated, with illustrations. A good copy. Various tales of Polar, Himalayan, South American and Oceanic travel, including pieces on Gino Watkins and Colonel Fawcett.…

Brooks, Day&Son London 1901 [Das dekorative Blatt an den Rändern teils angestaubt/fingerfleckig.] Die Wochenzeitschrift "Vanity Fair" legte in den Jahren 1869 bis zu ihrer Einstellung 1914 jeder Ausgabe eine Farblithographie mit dem Porträt der sogenannten "Person der Woche" bei. Neben anderen namhaften Künstlern seien vor allem Sir Leslie Ward (London 1851 - 1922) und Carlo Pellegrini (Capua 1839 - London 1889) genannt, die unter dem Pseudonym "Spy"(Ward) und "Ape"(Pellegrini) Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens karikierten.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good tight condition, portrait frontispiece and plates in red and black, ink owners inscription by the Earl of Belmore on free front end page, label on front paste down, red cloth, slight fading to spine, corners bumped, wear to spine edges.…

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. A fine original copper engraved portrait, ca 18th century, mounted and ready to frame. This is an excellent opportunity to purchase a portrait of this eminent personage. Lord chief Baron of her majesties court of Exchequer. Engraved By White (illustrator).

2pp, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to the blank second leaf of the bifolium. Folded twice. With regard to the University of St Andrews, where he and Cleveland received their medical education, Richardson writes that he is 'very pleased to hear from Dr Paul' that Cleveland 'will attend our University dinner. We shall have a very agreeable and I believe successful meeting'. As Cleveland is 'so kind as to subscribe to Dr Day's testimonial', Richardson asks if he will send his subscription, 'and with it your carte de visite and your Autograph on a small slip of white paper, for a testimonial album which is to accompany the testimonial'. George Edward Day (1815-1872) was Chandos Professor of Anatomy and Medicine at the University of St Andrews. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.…