wildrake (30 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Clean tight copy, clothbound in green. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Red cloth with gold lettering and decorations. Beveled edged boards. Some overall fading to the red; spine is a shade darker than the boards. 519 pages. Binding good and tight. 12 Hand-colored plates. Front endpaper missing; the first page is the half-title.

Half Leather. Zustand: Poor. Wildrake, Alken and Henderson (illustrator). First Edition. 332pp. With 32 illustrations by Wildrake, Alken and Henderson of which all the 9 hunting route maps & 1 plate have been removed. Cover tatty with most ofspine missing but block still well bound together. Marbled boards, edges, & endpapers. One of the surviving plates is foxed. Otherwise interior generally in nice clean condition. No names or inscriptions. Offered as a reading copy only. Picture of this book available.

Gilt-decorated Maroon Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket. Wildrake, Heath, Jellicoe (illustrator). (viii), 519pp, 16pp publisher catalogue at rear, illustrated with 12 hand-coloured plates, some spotting to edges but pages and plates appear to be clean, black endpapers, paper at hinges starting to crack, maroon cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and upper board, edges and corners a little rubbed and worn, spine slightly sunned. Hillingdon Hall (1844) is a novel by R.S. Surtees featuring his famous sporting character, John Jorrocks, who relocates from London to become a country squire. The story follows the "audacious" and often corrupt activities of Jorrocks as he navigates rural life, politics, and becomes a Justice of the Peace. Size: 8vo. Sporting Literature.

HardBack. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. 1st Edition Thus, Published for the Subscribers of The Surtees Society 1985, with the Puvlishers Note frpm the 1888 Edition, upon which the volume in hand is based. Thick Royal 8vo. 519pp, with List of Subscribers and advanced notice of the 8 other volumes of Surtees fiction which we also have for sale. With many full page coloured plate illustrations, including frontispiece, by Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe, and a black and white portrait. Volume appears unopened and unread, very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, clean crisp corners and edges, well held in joints and hinges. Beautifully bound in triple blind ruled and illustrated, bright gilt lettered and embossed, full purple cloth, featuring gilt embossed fox, hind, saddlery to spine and upper board, the very palest of light sporadic foxing to top edge of leaves, not intruding in the least. Housed and protected in such good condition in transparent removable dustwrapper as issued. Dickens Pickwick Papers originated as a rival to the immensely popular Jorrocks; Thackeray envied Surtees his powers of observation, and William Morris considered him a master of life and ranked him with Dickens. The volume in hand is a great addition to the library of reader, scholar and collector alike. Please check our listings for 8 other volumes of Surtees fiction, and 2 nonfiction, bought from the same collector.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Wildrake, Heath, Jellicoe (illustrator). 1st. First UK limited edition hardback (448/1000), 1931, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - red bevel-edged boards tanned to spine and titles rubbed. Binding tight and appears lightly read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; tanning and a little spotting to page-ends (upper-edge gilt) but text and illustrations (11 colour plates and colour frontispiece) bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book.

Hard. Zustand: Good+. With 12 illustrations by Wildrake-Heath-Jellicoe. (illustrator). Edition limited to one thousand copies f. Good+. Lacking dust jacket. Light wear. Name neatly penned to free front endpaper. Very pallid, light foxing to endpapers. Frontispiece verso bears mild damp-stain. xiii, 519pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition Thus. London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. First illustrated edition [1888]. Nicely bound copy of one of Surtees' gentle English social comedies, illustrated with twelve hand colored plates. Newer binding (probably early to mid twentieth century) of half crimson morocco over maroon boards, spine gilt lettering, attached ribbon bookmark, gilt top, other edges untrimmed, 519 pages. Externally near fine with a light bit of rubbing to the corner and spine ends, renewed endpapers, some evidence of an old repair in the inner margin of the title page, pages lightly age-toned but quite clean with no names or other markings, some scant scattered finger soil in a few margins. Plates are in near fine condition with two of the tissue protectors absent. A sound and handsome copy. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Second Edition. Hardback copy in red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 472pp. Colour frontispiece, 11 colour plates throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (19/2).

Gilt-decorated Green Cloth. Zustand: Fair/Good. First Edition. 82pp, contents page, 30pp adverts, engraved title page and 15 black & white plates of the original 16 - lacking "Thrown Out", some foxing, bookplates on endpaper, contemporary ink signatures of previous owners on endpapers and the blank page opposite the title page, original gilt-decorated green cloth, worn, front joint cracked. Schwerdt, volume 2, page 173 Size: 6.5 x 4.25 Inches. Sport.

Cloth. Zustand: Fair. Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe (illustrator). The first illustrated edition of this novel following Jorrocks, illustrated with hand-coloured plates. Following Jorrocks as he becomes the new squire of Hillingdon Hall.Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor and novelist, most widely known for the cockney character of Jorrocks. This work appeared posthumously, the year following the author's death.The first illustrated edition of this work.Illustrated by Wildrake, Health and Jellicoe with twelve hand-coloured plates. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Front board is loose. Externally rather worn; there is loss to the head and tail of the spine, and the cloth is rather faded. Extremities are somewhat bumped. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are uncut and just a touch age-toned. Fair. book.

Hard Back. Wildrake Heath Jellicoe (illustrator). Hard Back Bound in the original maroon cloth with gilt pictorial to the front board decorative embossed detail to both boards and vignette and gilt titles to the spine In good condition despite a little fading to the extremities with minor loss to the corners Spine sunned with the gilt dulled shelf wear to the top and base Slight cracking to the internal hinge although the binding is still fairly tight Pencil notation to one of the blank pages and the occasional spot of foxing Pages otherwise are clean throughout with twelve hand coloured plates by Wildrake Heath Jellicoe pp 519 16 Overall a good copynbsp. book.

Gilt-decorated Green Cloth. Zustand: Fair/Good. First Edition. 80pp, contents page, 16pp adverts, engraved title page and 10 black & white plates, some foxing, bookplates on endpaper, contemporary ink signatures of previous owners on endpaper, original gilt-decorated green cloth, stained, spine browned. Schwerdt, volume 2, page 173 Size: 6.5 x 4.25 Inches. Sport.

Cloth. Zustand: Good. James Seymour, Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick. (illustrator). A new edition of this fascinating and richly illustrated compilation of hound hunting in Great Britain. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Great Britain comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited and with an introduction by Walter Shaw Sparrow.Containing six colour plates, sixteen plates in half-tone, eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations.Collate, complete.With illustrations credited to James Seymour, Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. The spine is faded and a little bumped and the boards are a little faded. There is a previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound and with bright and clean pages with the occasional spot throughout. Good. book.

Zustand: Good. Second edition, with additions (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 16cm), title, iv, 300pp. 73 plates. Publisher's binding of brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine ,gilt design to the front board. Light sunning of the spine, minor chafing to the extremities of the binding, light straining of the inner hinges, some foxing of the plates (generally light, but the extra-title is heavily foxed); overall, this book is in good condition.

Quarter Red Morocco/Green Clot. Zustand: Good/Very Good. First Edition. 79pp, contents page, 28pp adverts, engraved title page and 13 black & white plates, some foxing, top edge gilt, quarter red morocco and green cloth, gilt spine lettering, bookplates on both front and rear endpapers. Schwerdt, volume 2, page 173 Size: 6.5 x 4.25 Inches. Sport.

Neuer Halblederband. Zustand: Gut. 24,5 x 16,5 cm. IV, 312 Seiten. Mit 75 Abbildungen (illustrated by seventy-five engravings, chiefly on steel, after paintings by Cooper, Herring, Hancock, and others; komplett). *Erstausgabe von George Tattersalls reich illustriertem Werk über englische Rennpferde, das dieser 1844 unter dem Pseudonym "Wildrake" veröffentlichte. Das Werk versammelt zahlreiche Porträts der Siegerpferde der vorangehenden Jahre bei den Derby-, Oaks- und St. Leger-Rennen, zumeist in Stahlstich. Die 75 Abbildungen einschließlich des illustrierten Titelblatts sind komplett erhalten. Vereinzelte Tafeln sind an anderen Stellen verbunden als in der "List of Illustrations" angegeben. - Einzelne Seiten mit leichten Knickspuren, ansonsten sauber und gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Thomas Weaver; T. Woodward; Wildrake; et al. (illustrator). A profusely illustrated collection of anecdotes concerning hunting, with maps and colour plates. An illustrated work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with six colour plates, sixteen plates in half-tone, eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Britain, comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, who also provided an introduction for this volume. Illustrated throughout after James Seymour, by Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally fairly smart, with fading to the spine and small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional spot, and some offsetting to the end papers. Very Good. book.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. Wildrake; Heath; Jellicoe (illustrator). An illustrated edition of Surtees' Hillingdon Hall, in very attractive leather binding. Containing twelve colour plates by various illustrators, the work is a fine example of Victorian upper-class humour, as well as of Surtees' unique fiction on the whole. In half-calf binding with gilt detailing and paper-covered boards. Externally quite smart, there is minor wear to the boards, joints, extremities and backstrip. Internally, the pages are firmly bound and are bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed. book.

Half Leather. Wildrake, Heath, Jellicoe (illustrator). Hardback One of Mr Surtees best works according to the publisher Handsomely bound in halfred leather with red cloth boards Gilt detail and titles between five raised bands to the spine The binding is in very good condition with the leather and cloth still rich and vibrant The top edge of the text block is gilt and still bright while the fore edge is untrimmed Light red and grey marbled endpapers which are free of any bookplates or inscriptions The pages are generally very clean although lightly toned with the occasional thumb mark throughout illustrated with 12 handcoloured plates pp 519 24 A beautiful copynbsp. book.

Original Brown Ribbed Cloth. Zustand: General Cover Wear. No Jacket. First Edition. Rebacked with original spine laid-down. New endpapers. Gilt winner's cup on front cover remains bright. Elaborately-engraved title-page is browned and heavily foxed. Date on spine is "1841", with no date on title-page. We have seen the 1843 edition called the second edition, thus we are calling this a first edition--although we have also seen a copy possibly dated "1840". This copyhas a total of sixty-five illustrations; 36 full-page steel engravings of great racehorses, 10 full-page plates of prominent racing ghentlemen, and 19 textual wood-cuts. Cololated complete. Some plates are foxed at margins, never heavy. Several tissue-guards remain. Covers are worn at edges and faded. BUT it is rare indeed to find this volume in its original binding, most having been rebound. 271pp. + 8 pages of adverts. Wildrake was the pseudonym for George Tattersall (1817-1849) of the famous London racing family. He was a sporting artist and architect. Size: Large Octavo.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Wildrake; Heath; Jellicoe (illustrator). An illustrated edition of Surtees' 'Hillingdon Hall', in a attractive publishers' cloth binding. Robert Smith Surtees was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer best known for his contributions to the first English sporting periodical to devote itself to every type of sport, 'The Sporting Magazine'. Surtees launched his own sporting magazine entitled the 'New Sporting Magazine' in 1831, contributing the comic papers which appeared as 'Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities' in 1838. Jorrocks, the eponymous, vulgar and artful sporting cockney grocer was a great success with the public and is often considered as one of the great comic characters of English Literature, Surtees produced several works in the same vein as his 'Jorrocks novels', including this text, 'Hillingdon Hall'. This work is a fine example of Victorian upper-class humour. Collated, complete with twelve coloured plates by Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe. In cloth binding with gilt detailing. Externally generally smart. Minor wear to extremities. Slight marking and sunning to boards and spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with light spotting to first and last few pages and to the odd page . Very Good. book.

Leather. Zustand: Good. Various (illustrator). An early edition of George Tattersall's highly illustrated work on English race horses, including portraits of the winning horses of recent years at the Derby, Oaks and St Leger races. An early edition, with this work first appearing in 1844. Written by George Tattersall under the pseudonym "Wildrake". Tattersall was an English sporting artist and architect, whose family ran the Tattersall horse market. He published a number of works on English horse racing, in a variety of edition, notably an expanded version of this 'Pictorial Gallery', published in 1850. This particular edition contains a gallery and information surrounding English race horses, with portraits of all the winning horses of the Derby, Oaks and St. Leger stakes from the previous thirteen years. Also including a history of the principal operations of the turf, with sketches of some of its most distinguished members. Very scarce in this early edition. Illustrated with seventy-four engravings, after paintings by Cooper, Herring, Hancock and others, including an extra, illustrated title page. Lacking plate of Miss Letty to page 172. Plates to page 33, 71 and 208 are bound in a different location to that stated on the list of illustrations page.Bound in half morocco with cloth boards. Renewed endpapers and blanks.With a newspaper clipping entitled 'Former Winners of the Derby' from 1780-1871 tipped-in to front blank. Bound in half morocco with cloth boards. Renewed endpapers and blanks. Externally, sound with some rubbing to the joints and extremities, causing a little loss to leather. Crack along the rear joint, board tenderly held. Hinges are strained, more so to the rear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with scattered spotting in places, heavier to the plates and to the illustrated title page and frontispiece. Article tipped-in to front blank. Illustrated title page and frontispiece loosening, and may detach with further handling. Good. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A First Printing in full red morocco with gilt titles and decorations. Five raised bands. A beautifully bound copy with original covers and spine pasted to 3 pages at back. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Housed in a Fine red cloth box 299pp 8vo.

Leather. Zustand: Near Fine. John Leech; Wildrake; Heath; Jellicoe (illustrator). An handsome two volume set of two novels by Robert Smith Surtees. This is a two volume set of two works written by Robert Smith Surtees, the English writer most remembered for his character Jorrocks, a vulgar but good natured sporting cockney grocer.Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire is illustrated with 12 hand coloured plates.Handley Cross; or, Jorrocks's Hunt is illustrated by John Leech with seventeen hand coloured plates and a frontispiece and other illustrations throughout the text.Collated, complete. In half morocco binding. Externally very smart. There is a little fading to the spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound with bright clean pages with the odd scattered spot. Near Fine. book.

hardcover. Zustand: very good(+). Leech, Wildrake, Heath & Jellico, and Phiz (illustrator). First. Illustrated by John Leech, Wildrake, Heath & Jellico, and Phiz, in black & white, with hand-colored plates. 6 volumes. Tall 8vo, handsomely bound by Riviere tall full crimson morocco, spines and covers elaborately gilt, with images of foxes, hounds, horses & stylized flower motifs; silk doublures, gilt dentelles, gilt edges. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853-88. Joints rubbed and starting on a few volumes, else near fine. First Editions or first one-volume editions. Hawbuck Grange, 1847; Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, 1853; Handley Cross, 1854; Ask Mamma, 1858; Plain or Ringlets?, 1860; Hillingdon Hall 1888. (first illustrated edition).

Zustand: Good. Handcolored etching. 13.2 x 20cm. on stiff vellum. Rare.

First edition. 8vo. iv, 271, (1) pp. Published blindstamped ribbed brown cloth, gilt to the spine and upper board, later pictorial bookplate of Walter H. Eckersley to the front free endpaper, ownership inscription of another prior owner, the racehorse trainer Frank Hartigan of Weyhill, to the front pastedown. 65 illustrations including frontispiece, illustrated title page and 44 plates plus the others in the text. Neatly rebacked preserving much of the original spine, else very good. Decorative title page undated, the date above taken from the spine lettering. A second edition with a dated letterpress title page appeared two years later.

Second Edition. Octavo (25cm). Full red crushed morocco, tooled in gilt with hunting devices, all edges gilt; marbled paper endpapers, gilt-tooled leather turn-ins; [iv],iv,300pp; frontispiece, decorative title page, and 50 full-page plates, with additional in-text wood engravings. A straight copy, lower edge rubbed, spine slightly darkened, with cracks to front joint at head and tail, occasional foxing, final leaf with partial tear at gutter: around Very Good. George Tattersall was a member of the family that founded and operated Tattersall's horse market. He was known for his sporting illustrations (though this book includes illustrations by multiple artists, in addition to Tattersall's scenes) and as a sporting architect. Bespoke binding by Bayntun of Bath, with his stamp to front turn-in.

Second edition with additions, completing the work to January, 1843. With 55 engraved plates including engraved frontispece, engraved title & vignettes in the text Illus, after Herring, A. Cooper, H. Alken etc. iv, 300pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Loder 161 Half contemporary red morocco and marblked boards.VG With 55 engraved plates including engraved frontispece, engraved title & vignettes in the text Illus, after Herring, A. Cooper, H. Alken etc. iv, 300pp. 1 vols. 8vo Second edition with additions, completing the work to January, 1843.