Cope C W Illustrator (2 results)

Facsimile ed. Hardback small wide trade, very good plus condition, colour plates, gilt title & edges, blue endpapers, frontispiece, laid-in tissue guides on plates (one loose tissue guide), blind stamped design on both boards. In cardboard slipcase. 32 pp. Facsimile edition. Originally published by Joseph Cundall in 1845. Felix Summerly was the pseudonym of Sir Henry Cole who initiated the Home Treasury series in 1843 for the enjoyment of children. The collected edition reproduced in this facsimile series has delicately hand-coloured plates, engraved on wood. This book shows the trend from fact toward fancy in content and design that was to grow through the second half of the 19th century. (One of a set of 35 handsome facsimiles in 28 slipcases.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Published by Longmans, Green and Co C1879, here is the hardback printing of The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith (Illustrated Edition) edited by Bolton Colney and illustrated by C.W.Cope and Others. Green cloth binding, gilt spine and front cover lettering and decoration, 232 pages, supreme illustrations the book is in very good plus condition with some light rubbing to the boards and spine and some light spotting/ staining to a few pages near the bottom edge.…