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Published by George Routledge & Sons, 1870
ISBN 10: 0003395294ISBN 13: 9780003395297
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Sir John Gilbert (illustrator). Good. No dust jacket as issued. nice front board nice frontis of the Bard w/ tissue heavy pages.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Over-sized volume. 476 pages. Highly decorative covers with gilt embellishment. Gilt page edges. Includes many illustrations in both color and black and white. Fine throughout. (M1).
Published by James Nisbet, London
Seller: Glenbower Books, Dublin, Ireland
1880, 1st, hb, large 8vo, orig cloth, stamps of Dublin Jesuit library, vg.
Published by Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1863
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Foster, Birket and Gilbert, John (illustrator). Octavo hardback, gilt edges, gilt decorated, blind stamped cloth. 339 pp. Black and white frontispiece + numerous other black and white original photographs and illustrations by Birket Foster and John Gilbert. Also eight original photos by G.W.WIlson of Aberdeen, tipped in. Slight wear at corners, especially on spine, small (2.5cm x 3cm) section of backstrip has become loose and been adhered back down, aside from this copy is generally Good condition. No dust jacket.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1914
Seller: Rareeclectic, Pound ridge, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Many illustrators, including Sir John Gilbert, W. C. Stanfield, Ernest Crofts, and Jean Baptiste Eduoard Detaille (illustrator). 1st Edition. First Edition (SD, 'Published October 1914' ). 'With Illustrations From Famous Paintings.' The color pastedown illustration on the front cover is by N.C. Wyeth. The frontispiece by Jean Baptiste Eduoard Detaille. You can see the covers in the photos. They're in pretty nice shape, particularly taking into account that the book was published in 1914. Here are the cover imperfections (although you can see them in the photos, I like to practice redundancy): There is some smooth rubbing on the pastedown illustration. All smooth. There is a bump/indent at the top edge of the front cover, a little bit of the same at the middle of the front bottom edge, and another small indent a little to the right of that, beside the letter 'S'. There is another bump/dent at the front middle edge with a couple of small grooves, and the same is the case directly across on the front side of the spine. So the book has survived a few battles of its own, but clearly came out the winner. The gilt lettering on the spine is nicely bright (so is the black lettering on the front). There is a thin white vertical line of soiling on the spine. There's just a little bit of bending/crinkling wear at the spine ends. The rear cover looks very good. Isn't any rubbing at the top and middle edges, there's a little whitening at the rear bottom one. The corners are in solid shape with only a speck-sized bit of rubbing on a few. The page edges look quite clean, no conspicuous staining. Here's a very important thing-- given that the book runs a very thick 410 pages -- the book is square, the spine is straight, and the binding is very solid with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. To be published in 1914 and to be this thick, and to be in this genre and to be still be solidly bound, that's pretty good. The interior of the book is in quite decent condition. The first handful of pages have either one or two small tan spots. The frontispiece is in very nice shape. It is protected by a tissue guard that is also in very good shape. All of the illustrations, black-and-white and full-page (one is double-page) are protected by tissue guards which are in very good shape as well. All of the tissue guards have a printed title of the illustration. There are 14 illustrations in total, including the frontispiece. I went through and accounted for all of them, referencing the Illustrations page. They are all in excellent condition. The tissue guards at their top are about 1/4 of an inch shorter than the text and illustration pages. That's the case for all of them, they were produced that way. The result is a slightly tanner hue over that 1/4r inch on the illustration and facing text page, more so on the facing text page. The pages are very clean. I'm not really finding any soiling, a few instances of a little bit of tannish coloring just peeking over the outer edge. I'm not finding any conspicuous creasing, no placeholder creases. There are a few instances of small groups of pages with a tiny tip of the top corner crease, not much of anything. There are no markings in the book. No attachments of any kind. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. Here are some of the battles (chapter headings) that are described: The Victory over the Khita, The Battle of Marathon, The Lemnian: A Story of Thermopyle, The Siege of Plataea, How Hannibal Made His Way To Italy, Julius Caesar in Gaul, A Vikings Sea-Fight, The Battle of Hastings, The Battle of Crecy, The Death of Winkleried, The Ballad of Agincourt, The Battle of Bosworth Field, The Siege of Leyden, The Battle of Ivry, Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen, The Battle of Naseby, Bunker Hill, The Battle of the Pyramids, Trafalgar, Hohenlinden, The Crossing of the Beresina River, Waterloo, The Charge of the Light Brigade, Farragut, The Attack upon Port Arthur, and The Siege of Adrianople.
Published by 'Saty Evng.' No date or place
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
3pp, 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition, lightly aged, with traces of glue from mount adhering to blank reverse of second leaf. Folded three times. The recipient is not named, but is clearly a book illustrator, and the letter provides an interesting view of the practices of book illustrators and engravers in Victorian London. Whymper begins by stating that he is sorry to have missed his 'Call', and to have been 'equally unfortunate this afternoon', when he left at his house 'Two pieces of wood & a little book I want you (if convent [sic]) to make me a Front[ispiece]. for by Thursday Morng. The subject to be from Page 10. where the stranger (who really is her father) plants the rose tree for her on her mothers grave. The Author has supplied me with a rough sketch (enclosed), as to the kind of scene wished. but which you are no further to be bound by than merely that it is chiefly wished to be a more landscape subject figures small. it shd be towards evening with a view over valley and on end of church as given otherwise you can alter. compose and make a pretty subject of it as you always do'. With reference to the future Sir John Gilbert he reports that 'Gilbert has done the vignettes for I did not know of yr return and I have left one at yr house that you may avoid any disparity in figures'. He has been 'daily expecting to call' on him, or he would have thanked him for his letter, and for 'leaving Hardings book for me'. The book is 'a great treat', which he wants to read 'with some diligence to read learn and inwardly digest it'. He wants to see what the recipient has 'done in the North', and hopes that he has 'returned invigorated'. He suggests a time when he will call, if he does not hear from him.
Published by 'Blackheath 4th April' no year
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
See his entry in the Oxford DNB. A protege of Prince Albert, Bell worked for the Privy Purse from the time of the Great Exhibition, and served as Permanent Secretary to the Keeper of the Privy Purse from 1876 to his death. Signed John Gilbert and addressed to Doyne C. Bell Esquire / &c &c. 1p, 12mo. In good condition, lightly aged. Folded once for postage. Reads: Dear Sir, / I remember the small picture painted in 1851. H M The Queen holding a drawing Room at St James s Palace. / I did not intend to paint a larger picture and never did . See Image.
Published by THE EASTON PRESS: NORWALK, CT IN CONJUNCTION WITH ROBERT FREDERICK LIMITED: BATH, UNITED KINGDOM, 2004
Seller: BRIER ROSE BOOKS, TEANECK, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. COMEDIES 299 PAGES, TRAGEDIES 406 PAGES, HISTORCAL (HISTORIES) 459 PAGES & GLOSSARY PAGES 463-476. LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED. BOUND IN FULL BLUE LEATHER, FOUR SLIGHTLY RAISED BANDS. BRIGHT CLEAR CRISP GOLD GILT & RED LETTERING AND DECORATION ON THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER, THREE EDGES GOLD GILT, SILK END PAGES, SILK BOOK MARK, LARGE THICK QUARTO. DOMESTIC MEDIA MAIL SHIPPING AT THE STANDARD SINGLE VOLUME RATE. PRIORITY AND INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING TO BE DETERMINED FOR THIS LARGE HEAVY VOLUME.
Published by Tokyo: Takichi Shinada, Meiji 19, 1886
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Charles and Mary Lamb were famous siblings who rendered Shakespeare's plays into "Tales from Shakespeare," a book for children (1807), are known for their contribution to literature. The present book is an early Japanese translation of their work, including Hamlet, King Lear, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and The Merchant of Venice. The renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist, Ogata Gekko (1859-1920), engraved copper plates after Sir John Gilbert's illustrations (1817-1897) for this book. The preface includes a short biography of William Shakespeare and Charles Lamb. The text is in Japanese. 17,8x11,8cm. (3)+(1)leaves+12+201 pp. 6+1 woodblock illustrations. Ex-owner hanko in red ink on the frontispiece and colophon. Occasional foxing. Original hardcover binding dyed with persimmon juice by the ex-owner. Near fine condition. Charles and Mary Lamb were famous siblings who rendered Shakespeare's plays into "Tales from Shakespeare," a book for children (1807), are known for their contribution to literature. The present book is an early Japanese translation of their work, including Hamlet, King Lear, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth, Cymbeline, and The Merchant of Venice. The renowned Japanese ukiyo-e artist, Ogata Gekko (1859-1920), engraved copper plates after Sir John Gilbert's illustrations (1817-1897) for this book. The preface includes a short biography of William Shakespeare and Charles Lamb. The text is in Japanese. 17,8x11,8cm. (3)+(1)leaves+12+201 pp. 6+1 woodblock illustrations. Ex-owner hanko in red ink on the frontispiece and colophon. Occasional foxing. Original hardcover binding dyed with persimmon juice by the ex-owner. Near fine condition.