Allom and Wright (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. THE CHINESE EMPIRE ILLUSTRATED. BEING A SERIES OF VIEWS FROM ORIGINAL SKETCHES BY THOMAS ALLOM WITH HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE LETTERPRESS BY THE REV G N WRIGHT' adapted & abridged by D J M Tate. The contents & illustrated hard covers are in very good condition.

Full Calf. Condition: Good. Text by Wright & illustrated. Partial loss to spine ends. Internally generally clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co., The Caxton Press., [1850], First Edition. Vol I ONLY of a two volume set. Half leather binding with buckram cloth boards, gilt titles to the spine, gilt page edges, rubbed and worn, with illustrated and letterpress title pages. Vol I 152pp with 73 plates including the title page and frontispiece. Provenance: signature for Francis Leteux to the front. Approximately 11 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition structurally sound, worn marked and scratched leather, gilt titles. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped rubbed and worn. Boards good condition buckram cloth and leather boards, rubbed marked and worn. Page edges good condition top edge darkened, all other edges gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition yellow, tanned and marked. End papers good condition yellow, tanned and marked. Title good condition tanned and foxed. Pages good condition damp stained, tanned and gently foxed throughout. Binding good condition sound. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: [1850] Binding: Hardback.…

4 volumes bound in TWO, quarto 11 x 8 3/4 inches, including the fourth volume by Eugene Lami and Jules Janin titled France Illustrated, Comprising a Summer and Winter in Paris. The 2 volumes uniformly leather bound IN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE BINDINGS - full morocco, spines with thick floral tooling in compartments of red and black, red lettering labels, extraordinary tooling to the boards of Napoleonic symbols of bees and eagles with the eagles on red grounds all within ornate settings of red and black. All edges gilt. Bindings in fine condition. Text and illustrated with 132 fine engraved plates, including four frontispieces and four engraved titles plus accompanying text. Complete. The plates rather spotted as often, but a beautiful bound copy of this fairly common work. Although without a binder's stamp- probably an English binding. Napoleon Bonaparte used powerful emblems to link his new French Empire to ancient Rome and early French kings. His primary symbols included the golden Imperial Eagle and the industrious bee.…

4 volumes in 2. 4to. pp. 72 [Life of Kang-He]; 96; 72; 68; 52; 4 engraved titles, 124 full page steel engraved plates. Contemporary half morocco, all edges gilt, a bit scuffed, but sound; the plates are remarkably clean in this copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Fisher, Son, & Co., [1843], dated to the Preface, First Edition. Vol I and II ONLY of a four volume set. Half leather binding with red buckram cloth boards, gilt titles to the spine, gilt page edges, rubbed and worn. Two volumes bound in one, with illustrated and letterpress title pages. Vol I 96pp with 32 plates including the title page and frontispiece. Vol II 72pp with 31 plates of 32, lacking plate at page 12. Provenance: no bookplates or signatures. Approximately 11 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition structurally sound, worn marked and scratched leather, gilt titles. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped rubbed and worn. Boards good condition buckram cloth and leather boards, rubbed marked and worn. Page edges good condition top edge darkened, all other edges gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition yellow, tanned and marked. End papers good condition yellow, tanned and marked. Title good condition tanned and foxed. Pages good condition tanned and gently foxed throughout. Binding good condition sound. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: [1846] Binding: Hardback.…