Heaths british gallery engravings (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large 8vo leather bound volumes with gold embossing. Front board volume i almost off and had bad old tape repair now gone. Back board tight. Volume 2 has some spine splitting on back board about 2 inches.Nice old english bookplates in each. There is 145 engravings in the 2 volumes more than the plate lists ask for. Usual light foxing. All edges gilt.…

Half-Leather. Zustand: Fair. Covers are heavily worn, but contents are very good. Owner's name.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First impression of the first edition of Volume II only. Undated, circa 1836. ***Please note that this volume is quite worn but complete with just one loose plate but present - this being the engraving of Mary Lester. ***A gallery of etchings consisting of 67 full-page black and white steel plate etchings engraved by various engravers, several by C. Heath (Charles Heath) with many being portraits of young ladies, a few of picturesque landscapes, a sea storm etc. with corresponding text on the following page. Text pages are numbered. Plates are unnumbered. ***Good in colour marbled boards with leather and gilt ruled and decorated spine and leather and gilt ruled corners. Decorative colour marbled front and rear endpapers and pastedowns. Small, owner's name in fine soft pencil: 'G. B. Badger, Rotherham' to top of front free endpaper. Edges of boards rubbed and worn. Corners of boards very rubbed and worn and frayed. Spine worn. Spine tight. Sporadic foxing mostly to page margins. Plates clean except the last plate which has some foxing. Each plate is protected with its own full-page, tissue guard-leaf and has a following descriptive text-page. One engraving loose without tissue guard: 'Mary Lester'. ***No title-page or any other prelims present, as called for with the second volume. Unpaginated. 40 numbered text-pages. 242mm x 176mm. ***A lovely book of fine steel engravings in its original half leather binding - of interest to collectors of antiquarian books of fine engravings and collectors of Charles Heath. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…

3 Volumes. 8vo. 3 engraved titles & 162 engraved plates by C.Heath & others after paintings by various artists incl. C.Stanfield, R.Smirke, J.M.W.Turner, &c. contemporary half chagrin, gilt backs, all edges gilt (rubbed, edges & corners worn, Vol. I lower front joint cracked, some plates foxed).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1836, 1837. Volumes 1 to 4 (complete), bound in two volumes. Both volumes bound uniformly in full leather, with blind and gilt embossed decorations, five panelled spine with gilt decorations and lettering, richly gilded and gauffered text block edges, gilded inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Vignettes on illustrated title pages. Bound by the Jersey bookbinder, C Le Fauvre, with his bookbinder's ticket on the front paste-down endpaper of each volume. Tall 8vo. Boards gently rubbed at edges, a little more harshly at spine tips and joints. Previous owner's inscription neatly on first blank leaf of each volume. Binding of first signature in each volume at little strained and one gutter cracked. In the first volume, which contains volumes I & II of the work, the title page to volume I is absent. In volume two, the front free endpaper and a few subsequent leaves have a mild corner crease. There's a some light spotting dotted throughout in each volume and hints of creaminess at page edges. Unpaginated. Together these volumes contain over 210 full page engravings, accompanied by selections related prose and poetry. Charles Heath was an engraver and early fellow of the RBA who exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1801 and 1825. He moved from engraving into art publishing in the late 1820s. Many of the engraved plates published under his name were in fact produced by assistants in his workshop.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Has been rebound and does not match to the list of engravings which should be in volume 2. 58 engravings in total. Gilt page edges.

0. Volume I. 4° 87 Tafeln, mit Text. Halbleder, mit Lederecken. Rücken mit Goldpräg., berieben und bestossen, Gelenk gebrochen, Textbräunung, teils fleckig. Sprache: Englischglisch 1,500 gr.

London, Longman Rees Orme etc., 1836, in-8°, 24 cm, engraved title + ca 110 nn pp + 55 steel engravings ; engraved title + ca. 110 nn pp + 54 engraved plates, contemporary half leather binding, with smooth flat gilt back, marbled boards, edges and endpapers, joint weak but holding, interior fine and stainless, without the usual foxing.…

Heath, Charles and James. Engraved title in each volume and 216 engravings by Charles Heath and others after various artists. 4 vols. Square 8vo. Original green cloth gilt. Sprung, some light wear and soiling to bindings. Good Engraved title in each volume and 216 engravings by Charles Heath and others after various artists. 4 vols. Square 8vo.…