Count Cartrie (5 results)

Condition: Fair. 1906. No Edition Remarks. 249 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Moderate crinkling and cracking to paper at gutter. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Pen and pencil inscription and markings to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed gilt. Rough cut pages. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing and splits to spine ends and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges. Visible wear marks to boards.

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked red cloth boards, now somewhat dust-toned and with a uniformly sun-toned spine. Endbands rubbed. Edges, preliminary and final leaves foxed, with fainter scattered foxing to the margins throughout. Remains a strong and well-preserved copy overall. Physical description; lxxxi, 248 pages, plates : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Notes; With an introduction by Frédéric Masson. Appendices and notes by Pierre Amédée Pichot and other hands. Title vignette (coat of arms). Subjects; Cartrie, Toussaint Ambroise Talour, Count de 1768-1834. France History Wars of the Vendée, 1793-1832 Personal narratives. France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Refugees. Royalists France Biography. Refugees England Biography. Gardeners England Biography. Gascoigne Collection. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked red cloth boards, now somewhat dust-toned and with a uniformly sun-toned spine. Endbands rubbed. Edges, preliminary and final leaves foxed, with fainter scattered foxing to the margins throughout. Remains a strong and well-preserved copy overall. Physical description; lxxxi, 248 pages, plates : frontispiece, illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 23 cm. Notes; With an introduction by Frédéric Masson. Appendices and notes by Pierre Amédée Pichot and other hands. Title vignette (coat of arms). Subjects; Cartrie, Toussaint Ambroise Talour, Count de 1768-1834. France History Wars of the Vendée, 1793-1832 Personal narratives. France History Revolution, 1789-1799 Refugees. Royalists France Biography. Refugees England Biography. Gardeners England Biography. Gascoigne Collection. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. All plates present: the frontispiece tissue guarded. Previous owner's signature to FEP. Some foxing to the endpapers but otherwise free. Gilt top to page block. Bound in red cloth with gilt inserts: top or the spine bumped, but binding sound; diagonal incised mark to the bottom of front board. Overall, a very good copy. All proceeds of ale go to LOROS, a Hospice Charity serving Leicestershire and Rutland.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Lower half of spine cloth has come loose and has been roughly glued down along the rear joint. Moderate foxing. No signatures. A rough reading copy. ; lxxxi, [3], 249, [1] pages + [6], 16 pages advertisements + frontispiece + 20 illustrations on 19 plate leavse. Red cloth boards with gilt crest on front board. Gilt illustrations to spine cloth. Page dimensions: 219 x 144mm. Top page edges gilt. ; 8vo.