Allom, Signed (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Couple of foxing spots to the page edges and prelims, else a very good copy. Signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author(s).

1. Original-Stahlstich von Wilkinson (in der Platte signiert) nach Allom auf rückseitig unbedrucktem Büttenblatt, sehr geschmackvoll und fein koloriert, bildliche Darstellung ca. 15,5 x 10 cm, unter Schrägschnitt-Passepartout montiert, sauber und sehr gut erhalten, sehr schönes Blatt 1100 gr.

1. Original-Stahlstich von Finden (in der Platte signiert) nach Allom auf rückseitig unbedrucktem Büttenblatt, bildliche Darstellung ca. 11 x 18,5 cm, Blattgröße ca. 20 x 26 cm, sauber und sehr gut erhalten, sehr schönes Blatt 1100 gr.

1. Original-Stahlstich von Adlard (in der Platte signiert) nach Allom auf rückseitig unbedrucktem Büttenkarton, bildliche Darstellung ca. 12,5 x 19,5 cm, Kartongröße ca. 21 x 28 cm (jeweils Höhe x Breite), im breiten Kartonrand unterhalb der bildlichen Darstellung etwas Alterspatina, ansonsten sehr gut erhalten, selten 2100 gr.

1. Original-Stahlstich von F.J. Havill (in der Platte signiert) nach T. Allom auf weißem Karton, von alter Hand schön koloriert und unter Schrägschnitt-Passepartout montiert, bildliche Darstellung ca. 10 x 15,5 cm, sauber und sehr gut erhalten, beautifully colored old steel engraving 1100 gr.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 45 Black and White plates plus fold-out map and decorative title page. One plate ('Eschenlohe') has been coloured in remarkably neatly; another has been partly coloured. Original green binding with blind-stamped floral design on cover. Very Good (-) (edges of spine weak). From the library of MP Denis Healey, and signed by him.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A lovely copy of the uncommon first edition of this history of Eastbourne College, the college association copy signed by the author. The only edition of this work, dated from same copies on Copac, first edition. An uncommon volume.The story of Eastbourne College, Sussex's first centenary, from its founding in mid-Victorian times for the education of the sons of the nobility and gentry. Written by V. M. Allom, staff at Eastbourne College. Signed by the author to verso half title. Also an association copy presented to The Old Eastbournian Association by Eastbourne College, bookplate to front pastedown.Illustrated with photographic plates in black and white. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper.Errata sheet loosely inserted. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear, minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Signed by author to verso half title. The Old Eastbournian Association bookplate to front pastedown. Dust wrapper unclipped and very smart with minor shelf wear, minor chipping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. With photographic plates in black and white. Fine. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good- to near fine condition. Large Quarto. [6] II, 3-80, [2] 76, [2] 100 [4]pp. 120 plates, incl. two maps and three vignette titles. Original green pebbled morocco with gilt tooling and ruling along edges of covers, gilt lettering, ruling and tooling on spines; raised bands, and protected by modern mylar. Gilt edges. Endpapers yellow. Engraved vignette titles. The author, John Carne, left England in 1821, and spent much time traveling in Israel/Palestine and in Constantinople, Greece, the Levant and Egypt. It is one of the few works of that time to include what is present-day Lebanon. The book, with plates by Bartlett, Purser, and Allom, was published some time after Carne returned to England, initially in thirty parts of four plates each. Many of the plates in volume 3 are after drawings by Thomas Allom, commissioned by the publishers to complete the illustrations. This work contains 2 full page maps and 118 steel-engraved plates depicting views throughout Syria and Asia Minor, all protected by tissue-guards. All volumes with list of engravings at front, volume three with general index at rear. Binding with light rubbing and scuffing along edges, slightly more pronounced at top foredge of front cover of volume three. All three volumes lightly starting at inside covers but firm. Volume one with engraved bookplate on inside front cover, signed Alfred Bilbrough, May, 1908. All three volumes with medium seize O printed to front free endpapers. Volume three with bump at lower spine, lightly at foredge, and some pages and plates with water stains at top margins, not affecting images. Eighty of the engravings are fine with none or very light foxing in margins. Thirty-six engravings with light or minor damp-staining in plates, four engravings with heavy damp-staining in images. Blocks lightly age-toned.

Humorous account of the 1930-31 cricket tour of South Africa by the MCC. 1st edition. 8vo. 256pp, photos. Original blue boards, lightly rubbed and a little faded to spine. A good copy. Signed to the fly-leaf by both authors with an inscription "Of what use the two Maurices without one Lionel?".