After Brown (42 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket after Margaret Bushby Lascelles Cockburn (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with full number line. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (£20.00), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 308pp, illustrated, illustrated endpapers. From the giant, long lived Rhododendron falconeri, with its peeling cinnamon bark on sculptured trunks to the delicate potted azalea on the garden patio, almost everyone has a rhododendron within reach of their daily lives. But who knows anything about this mysterious plant? Two hundred years ago the rhododendron was dragged to Britain from the dizzying heights of its natural habitat in the Sino Himalayas by avaricious British collectors. Some of the species mutated, others proved hardy and easy to hybridise. Today the rhododendron has made a greater impact on the English landscape than any other plant. Jane Brown uncovers the rhododendron's story which reaches back hundreds, some say thousands of years (the dove returning to Noah's ark was, apparently, carrying the leaf of a rhododendron). The Aztecs favoured it for their pleasure gardens (although the Jesuits believed they discovered it), the Chinese use it in medicines, mariners used it as ballast cargo, it has excited royal passions (Edward Prince of Wales surrounded himself with them at Virginia Water in the 1920s) and been the source of personal feuds (in the Rhododendron Society). After the First World War the government thought enough of the plant to fill Windsor Great Park with them in order to cheer up the nation. The epitome of bad taste, the scourge of conservationists or a majestic and ancient beauty forced to exist out of its natural habitat? Jane Brown ultimately asks: What is the rhododendron for? Though all plants have an ultimate purpose to their existence, the rhododendron apparently has no obvious one. Scarce in this first impression.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Wilson Harris "Germany And France" / D R Gillie "What Faces France?" / Dr Julian Huxley "Intellect At Wroclaw" / Cecil Northcott "Amsterdam And After" / Rawle Knox "Tourists' Island" / Wilson Harris "A Swiss Century" / James Pope-Hennessy "From Caen To Cannes" / John Brown "Pools And The Workers" (Papers).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket after Eric Ravilious (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with '001' on copyright page. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE 'To Lesley, Blackpool is (underlined) the seaside! Cheers Pete Brown'. Some edge wear and creasing to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, very slight lean, not price clipped (£16.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy. 342pp. In Britain, we have always had an awkward relationship with food. We've been told for so long that we are terrible cooks and yet when someone with a clipboard asks us what the best things are about being British, our traditional food and drink are more important than the monarchy and at least as significant as our landscape and national monuments in defining a collective notion of who we are. Taking nine archetypically British dishes, Pie and Peas, A Cheese Sandwich, Fish and Chips, Spag Bol, Devonshire Cream Tea, Curry, The Full English, The Sunday Roast and a Crumble with Custard, and enjoying them in their most typical settings, Pete Brown examines just how fundamental food is to our sense of identity, perhaps even our sense of pride, and the ways in which we understand our place in the world. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 14 7/8" X 10 7/8".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket watercolour after Buckinghamshire County Museum (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. DOUBLE SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLUE AND BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some slight yellowing to extremities of page block, price clipped, no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy. 155pp, lavishly illustrated. Marlow is an ancient Thames crossing point, a position symbolised by its elegant suspension bridge. Timber, wheat and malt were the main cargoes sent down river to London in the days when Marlow merchants built up contacts with trading houses in the capital, apprenticed their sons to London tradesmen, and forged commercial links. Though never a busy market town, it had a market day and two annual fairs. Due to wheat and barley growing, the local maltsters prospered and Wethered's brewery become the largest employer in the town. Scarce signed. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Frontispiece By Joseph Brown After Samuel Lawrence; Illustrations (illustrator). xii, 672 pp. Very Good. Illustrated Kensington Edition. 7 11/16" Tall. Red Cloth, embossed in gilt and black. Full-page line plates. FRONTISPIECE BY JOSEPH BROWN. A solid copy, wear at top and bottom of spine with some points of fraying, endpapers cracked but not broken 1/8" from joint. [552].

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Andrew Dakers "An Epic of the Barren Lands" / Sybil Thorndike "After Ten years" / Hugo Eckener "Zeppelin" / Somerset de Chair "Red Bread" / Malcolm Elwin "Robert Walpole" / Thomas Moult "I Came Here to Work!" / Sidney Dark "Friends & Adventures"/ Max Murray "I went to Russia" / E M Delafield "A Letter to the Publisher" / Alec Brown "Moscow Has a Plan" / Major Phelps Hodge "Long Way to London" / David Garnett "A note on 'Charlotte's row'" / W Walmesley White "Migratory Birds" - there are also photographs of; francis Stuart, Edward Garnett, H E Bates. (U.P.).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original terracotta cloth covers, black lettering to spine. Folio 12½" x 10" 359 pp ISBN 084782196X. Colour and monochrome paintings throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, book never opened or thumbed. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding facility as a draughtsman, and was an important innovator in watercolour and etching. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Flemish and Dutch].

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. No Jacket. First Edition. HBNO DJ issued, 1880,1st edition, 479 pgs,Index , Green Bevelled Cloth decorated Cover with Gold Gilt , minor Cvr Rub & Wear with Tiny Chips & Pieces Extremities & Spine, Mild Fox VG/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ.

Condition: Good. A set of rare, contemporary views of California during the Gold Rush, which though not from one of the many official reports of the period, do provide images as accurate and informative as any of the government publications. These charming lithographs were issued in John M. Lett's A Pictorial View of California, which claimed to have "Information and Advice Interesting To All, Particularly Those Who Intend To Visit The Golden Region." The artist, G.V. Cooper, was a painter, cameo cutter and sculptor who went to California with Letts in 1849, making sketches of many of the major sites. These prints provided some of the earliest accurate, first-hand images that those on the East Coast would have had of California during the Gold Rush, and they wonderfully capture this brief yet seminal moment in American history. Some of the prints are of the larger settlements in California, but most are scenes of the gold camps and of prospectors at work. Line engraving 277 mm x 137 mm. C. W. Lewis Print.

Condition: Good. 6 inches by 4 inches. Engraving of an English country scene.

Condition: Good. 6 x 4 inches. Engraving of an English country scene. Wove paper.

Condition: Good. Engraving, 16 x 12 cm. Good with dry mold, faint creasing. Likely from a periodical such as "Universal Magazine.".

Seltene handkolorierte Lithographie von 1852. Blatt-Maße: ca. 54,5 x 68 cm. -- leicht gebräunt am unteren Außenrand, sonst gut erhalten. || Rare original hand colored lithograph from 1852. -- slightly browned on the lower outer margin, otherwise in very good condition. // Wir, das Antiquariat Steffen Völkel, kaufen und verkaufen alte Bücher, Handschriften, Zeichnungen, Autographen, Grafiken und Fotografien. Wir sind stets am Ankauf von kompletten Bibliotheken, Sammlungen und Nachlässen interessiert. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 50.

Condition: Good. Engraving. 8 x 9.6 cm. Very Good. Scarce.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned, short tears along top sheet edge.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned, short tears along top sheet edge.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Stipple and steel engraving. 28 x 19 cm (sheet). With the blindstamp of Teachers College, Bryson Library, New York, in upper right sheet corner. With facsimile signature. Very Good, sheet lightly toned.

Condition: Good. Wood engraving. 16.5 x 27 cm (sheet). Text on verso. Very Good.

Condition: Good. Original engraving. 27 x 19.5 cm (sheet). Facsimile signature. Very Good, light staining in the margins.

Condition: Good. Stipple engraving. 27.5 x 19.5 cm. (sheet). Good. Foxing in the image. Tear at lower left sheet edge.

Condition: Good. Wood engraving. 218 x 240 mm. (sheet). Very Good, some specks of foxing, text on verso.Provenance: From the collection of the Late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.