Florence Byng (3 results)

Hardback. Printed pages: 59. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Paper covered boards with printed title to front board. Spine chipped to edges and slightly worn to ends. Boards have some marks and are worn to corners. Binding a little loose, but all pages are fully attached. The engraved title page and one illustration have been coloured by a child, gift inscription to half title page dated January 1893. A rare Victorian children's title. WorldCat locates 5 copies worldwide. Overall condition is Good. Size: 7 x 8.75 inches (17.5 x 22 cm).…

Leather. Condition: Good Only. A very scarce copy of this book of poetry by Florence M. Byng. Very scarce. In an attractive morocco binding, with an illustrated frontispiece. 1 of 51 copies privately printed by the Riccardi Press Fount. With previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. In a morocco binding with gilt detailing. Externally, rubbed with some fading to spine. Front joint is weak, while rear joint has failed, with board detached but present. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Good Only. Unamed (illustrator). book.…

Finely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe n full brown morocco with raised bands to spine,attractive gilt tooling to all faces including blossom motif at all four corners, on both covers, gilt titles to spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, all others untrimmed. With a frontispiece portrait bound in on a cloth hinge. One of a limited run of 50 copies on handmade paper and one on vellum printed by the Riccardi Press Fount, this example being on paper. Front flyleaf removed. Binding is near fine.…