Engraved Robert Roberts (3 results)

A nice sound Large Paper copy of the First Edition in re-backed publishers cloth [11"X8"] retaining the original yellow coated endpapers with the successive book plates of Julius Charles Hare. Maurice Powell and Professor Sir Alfred E.Richardson K.C.V.O.,P.P.R.A. the eminent scholar and architect. Forty tissue guarded plates of mediaeval sculptured fonts, mostly from churches in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire, no doubt on account of the fact that Simpson lived in Stamford, on the borders of those counties. A nice association copy at a very reasonable price.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book Description: Published by Septimus Prowett, London, 1828. First and only edition. Tall octavo. xxvi + 80pp + 40 plates + Addenda + Directions to the Binder. Bookplate of the Rt. Rev. Sir Lovelace Tomlinson Stamer Bt., DD, VD, (18 October 1829 - 29 October 1908) who was the first Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury in the modern era. Full diced stained calf with gilt rope motive surrounding the boards, gilt decoration around the board edges and four raised band with elaborate gilt blocked motifs to the compartments. Title in gilt on a red leather label. End papers and all edges marbled. Ribbon marker intact. Book Condition: Although hinges are a little rubbed they are fully intact. The internal condition is almost entirely free of foxing and without offsetting, both often met with in this work. The plates are therefore beautifully clean (except the frontispiece which has faint spotting). A really fine copy. Three images. Extra shipping needed outside the UK.

Condition: Fine. 30 Fine plates 11½'' x 9'' bound together in hard back binding, all page edges gilt. Consisting of: Paris From Montmarte, Fall of the Rhone, Notre Dame Paris, Paris on the Seine, and other French country and Paris scenes. Foxing to reverse of each plate with light foxing to the surfaces, front board detached. Member of the P.B.F.A. FRANCE [Literature & History).