Avery Tipping (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. original blue cloth hardcover,illustrated,282 pages plus advertisment pages,light stain to front ccover,spine a little faded,private bookplate and name to flyleaf otherwise very good. Shelf 267.

Black & White Plates (illustrator). Boston, MA: Small, Maynard & Company. G+: ex-library copy with spine marks, removed pocket/No Dustjacket. N.d. 8vo., viii,79pp.,32 . G+: ex-library copy with spine marks, removed pocket/No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Presumed First Edition. Now protected in a clear plastic cover - Dark blue cloth/ dull titling and bright gilt publishers lettering (with blind-stamped crests to front and rear boards). No Date (1915). xii + 281pp including index + 14 pp publisher's book advertising list. Colour frontispiece and 10 plates (1 colour) and b/w illustrations in text (including maps). The story of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers follows their history from the raising of the regiment, through the camp at Dundalk in Ireland, the Battle of the Boyne, Aghrim, Namur, Blenheim, Oudenarde, Dettingen and Fontenoy, etc . North America, etc, . in the Peninsula Campaigns at Corunna, Albuera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Madrid, Vittoria, the Pyrenees - Orthes and Toulouse and even at Walcheren. Also at Waterloo, in America and the West Indies during peace times, in the Crimea, at the Indian Mutiny, in the Ashanti War, Burma, South Africa and the Great War. A Chapter is also devoted to the Militia, Volunteer, Territorial and Service Battalions. Complete with Appendices. Top edge 'dusty'. A little foxing to page fore-edges. A couple of scratched out names and one ink name to the endpapers otherwise a VERY clean, bright, tight copy.; 8470; 8vo (large).

Cloth. Condition: Good. Various (illustrator). First edition. A profusely illustrated guide to English gardens by the garden designer and Country Life magazine editor Henry Avray Tipping. In the publisher's original green cloth binding.This volume is a first edition.Illustrated with with a black-and-white frontispiece, 521 illustrations in the text, over 50 photographic plates and garden plans, detailing 52 top English gardens Collated, complete.Henry Avray Tipping (1855-1933) was a garden designer and Architectural Editor of Country Life magazine, who wrote about country houses and gardens. In this work, Tipping describes famous English gardens such as Oxford Physic Garden, Iford in Wiltshire, Bodnant in Denbighshire, Hestercombe in Somerset, and Highhead in Cumberland. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Fading to boards and spine. Rubbing to boards, spine and extremities occasionally resulting in slight loss to cloth. The odd slight handling mark to boards, more prevalent to rear board. The odd scratch to rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Good. book.

Hardcover. folio. 39cm, 375p., with 521 plates and illustrations from photographs, index, quarter green linen backed green cloth boards, gilt spine and upper cover titles, a.e.g., spine slight faded, top and bottom of the spine edges frayed, otherwise a very good sound copy (ds1). Descriptions and illustrations of fifty-two gardens from the period.