Week von gardner william (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition, Illustrated Edition. THACKERAY, William Makepeace (1811-1863). GARDNER, Sidney, illustrator. Notes of a Week's Holiday. New York: James Pott & Company, n.d. [circa 1908]. Illustrated Edition. Small-format volume. 70 pp. Publisher's original blue cloth, elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt to the front board and spine; top edge gilt, decorative endpapers, and original bound-in silk ribbon marker. Illustrated with full-page tinted plates by Sidney Gardner. Includes a prefatory quotation by Anthony Trollope. Printed by William Brendon & Son, Ltd., Plymouth. A decorative Edwardian gift-book edition of Thackeray's travel sketch from the Roundabout Papers, combining his prose with Gardner's atmospheric illustrations and elegant small-format book production. Contents clean with light, even toning. Plates bright and well preserved. Binding remains sound and square. Cloth and gilt exceptionally fresh, with minimal shelf wear. A Near Fine copy. [Attributes: Hard Cover; Illustrated.]. GARDNER, Sidney (illustrator). …