Graves Robert Editors (24 results)
Language: English
Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1923
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Book is clean, tight and unmarked save for a small stain on rear board at spine fold. In tattered DJ.
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Language: English
Published by Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1968
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Previous owner's signature.
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Encounter Magazine, June 1962 / Jorge Luis Borges "The Babylonian Lottery" / Luigi Barzini "The Difference in the South - Letter from Italy" / Kenneth Tynan "Tempo Fugit" / Nigel Dennis "Hanging Day" / Igor Stravinsky "On 'Oedipus Rex'" / Robert Graves- 5 poems
Spender, Stephen; Lasky, Melvin J. (Editors) / Jorge Luis Borges "The Babylonian Lottery" / Luigi Barzini "The Difference in the South - Letter from Italy" / Kenneth Tynan "Tempo Fugit" / Nigel Dennis "Hanging Day" / Igor Stravinsky "On 'Oedipus Rex'" / Robert Graves- 5 poems
Published by Encounter Ltd, 1962
- Softcover
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. Jorge Luis Borges "The Babylonian Lottery" / Luigi Barzini "The Difference in the South - Letter from Italy" / Kenneth Tynan "Tempo Fugit" / Nigel Dennis "Hanging Day" / Igor Stravinsky "On 'Oedipus Rex'" / Robert Graves- 5 poems.
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Encounter September, 1974 / Jonathan Power (New Proletariat); P.N. Furbank (Arnold Bennett); John Weightman (Theatre: Tom Stoppard, Bernard Shaw); Constanticen Fitzgibbon (Norman Douglas); Mexx Beloff (Thomas Jefferson); Robert Isbet (Rousseau) Janet Adam Smith (Edwin Muir Letters); E.J. Misban (New Inflation); Roy Fuller (Keith Douglas); Poetry (John Nole, Obert Graves, Anthony Twaite, John Mathias, David Rokzah, David Day, Peter Porter); Golo Mann (Geeration Gap)
Lasky Melvin J. & Thwaite, Anthony (Editors) / Jonathan Power (New Proletariat); P.N. Furbank (Arnold Bennett); John Weightman (Theatre: Tom Stoppard, Bernard Shaw); Constanticen Fitzgibbon (Norman Douglas); Mexx Beloff (Thomas Jefferson); Robert Isbet (Rousseau) Janet Adam Smith (Edwin Muir Letters); E.J. Misban (New Inflation); Roy Fuller (Keith Douglas); Poetry (John Nole, Obert Graves, Anthony Twaite, John Mathias, David Rokzah, David Day, Peter Porter); Golo Mann (Geeration Gap)
Language: English
Published by Encounter, London, 1974
- Softcover
- First Edition
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 97 pages. Jonathan Power (New Proletariat); P.N. Furbank (Arnold Bennett); John Weightman (Theatre: Tom Stoppard, Bernard Shaw); Constanticen Fitzgibbon (Norman Douglas); Mexx Beloff (Thomas Jefferson); Robert Isbet (Rousseau) Janet Adam Smith (Edwin Muir Letters); E.J. Misban (New…Inflation); Roy Fuller (Keith Douglas); Poetry (John Nole, Obert Graves, Anthony Twaite, John Mathias, David Rokzah, David Day, Peter Porter); Golo Mann (Geeration Gap).
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Encounter December 1961 / Robert Graves "The Dedicated Poet" (The Oxford Inaugural Lecture) / David Marquand "Passion and Politics" / Henry Fairlie "The Exclusive Ones" / Marcus Cunliffe "Europe and America" Philip Williams "The French Army" / Anthony Carson "A Trip to Amsterdam" / Hans Meyerhoff "Plato Among Friends and Enemies"
Stephen Spender & Melvin J Lasky (Editors) / Robert Graves "The Dedicated Poet" (The Oxford Inaugural Lecture) / David Marquand "Passion and Politics" / Henry Fairlie "The Exclusive Ones" / Marcus Cunliffe "Europe and America" Philip Williams "The French Army" / Anthony Carson "A Trip to Amsterdam" / Hans Meyerhoff "Plato Among Friends and Enemies"
Published by Encounter, 1961
- Softcover
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Robert Graves "The Dedicated Poet" (The Oxford Inaugural Lecture) / David Marquand "Passion and Politics" / Henry Fairlie "The Exclusive Ones" / Marcus Cunliffe "Europe and America" Philip Williams "The French Army" / Anthony Carson "A Trip to Amsterdam" / Hans Meyerhoff "Plato Among F…riends and Enemies".
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Encounter November 1957 / Robert Graves "The Second-Fated" (poem) / Michael Swan "The Fall of Towakaima A British Guiana Interior" / "Herbert Luthy "The Passing of the European Order" /Michael Polany
Stephen Spender and Irving Kristol (Editors) / Robert Graves "The Second-Fated" (poem) / Michael Swan "The Fall of Towakaima A British Guiana Interior" / "Herbert Luthy "The Passing of the European Order" /Michael Polany
Published by Encounter, 1957
- Softcover
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 92 pages. Robert Graves "The Second-Fated" (poem) / Michael Swan "The Fall of Towakaima A British Guiana Interior" / "Herbert Luthy "The Passing of the European Order" /Michael Polanyi "The Foolishness of History" / Roy Fuller "Virgin and Unicorn" (poem).
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Encounter December 1961 Robert Graves "The Dedicated Poet" Oxford Inaugural Lecture. / Robert Graves "The Dedicated Poet" / David Marquand "Passion and Politics" / Henry Fairlie "The Exclusive Ones" / Jo Grimond "Muggeridge And The Monarchy" / Anthony Carson "A Trip to Amstertdam" / Philip Williams "The French Army" / Hans Meyerhoff "Plato Among Friends and Enemies" / Dr Golo Mann "Germany & the West" / T R Fyvel "The Stormy Life of Ilya Ehrenburg"
Stephen Spender & Melvin J Lasky (Editors) / Robert Graves "The Dedicated Poet" / David Marquand "Passion and Politics" / Henry Fairlie "The Exclusive Ones" / Jo Grimond "Muggeridge And The Monarchy" / Anthony Carson "A Trip to Amstertdam" / Philip Williams "The French Army" / Hans Meyerhoff "Plato Among Friends and Enemies" / Dr Golo Mann "Germany & the West" / T R Fyvel "The Stormy Life of Ilya Ehrenburg"
Published by Encounter Ltd
- Softcover
- Magazine / Periodical
Seller: Shore Books, London, United KingdomShore Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 95 pages. Robert Graves "The Dedicated Poet" / David Marquand "Passion and Politics" / Henry Fairlie "The Exclusive Ones" / Jo Grimond "Muggeridge And The Monarchy" / Anthony Carson "A Trip to Amstertdam" / Philip Williams "The French Army" / Hans Meyerhoff "Plato Among Friends and Enemies" / Dr… Golo Mann "Germany & the West" / T R Fyvel "The Stormy Life of Ilya Ehrenburg".
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Encounter February 1963 / V S Naipul - story / Roy Jenkins "Brussels" / John Mander "India" / Nigel Dennis "Lear" / Robert Graves "Hebrew Myths" / F R Allemann "Adenauer" / Wayland Young "Pugwash" / Frank Kermode "Gutenberg"
Stephen Spender and Melvin J Lasky (Editors) /.V S Naipul - story / Roy Jenkins "Brussels" / John Mander "India" / Nigel Dennis "Lear" / Robert Graves "Hebrew Myths" / F R Allemann "Adenauer" / Wayland Young "Pugwash" / Frank Kermode "Gutenberg"
Published by Encounter, 1963
- Softcover
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. V S Naipul - story / Roy Jenkins "Brussels" / John Mander "India" / Nigel Dennis "Lear" / Robert Graves "Hebrew Myths" / F R Allemann "Adenauer" / Wayland Young "Pugwash" / Frank Kermode "Gutenberg".
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Encounter: October 1972, Volume XXXIX, No. 4 / Robert Graves "The Absentee Fusilier" / H Montgomery Hyde "Henry James & Theodora Bosanquet" / Norman Levine "We All Begin in a Little Magazine" / Arthur Bestor "In Defence of Intellectual Integrity" / Abdul Wahab al-Bayati "'Ain-al-Shams: or the Metamorphoses of Ibn-'Arabi in his Transaltion of Desires'" / Andrew Shonfield "Thinking About the Past" / Rayner Heppenstall "The Murder of Jean Jaures"
Melvin J Lasky and D J Enright (Editors) / Robert Graves "The Absentee Fusilier" / H Montgomery Hyde "Henry James & Theodora Bosanquet" / Norman Levine "We All Begin in a Little Magazine" / Arthur Bestor "In Defence of Intellectual Integrity" / Abdul Wahab al-Bayati "'Ain-al-Shams: or the Metamorphoses of Ibn-'Arabi in his Transaltion of Desires'" / Andrew Shonfield "Thinking About the Past" / Rayner Heppenstall "The Murder of Jean Jaures"
Published by Encounter Ltd, 1972
- Softcover
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 97 pages. Robert Graves "The Absentee Fusilier" / H Montgomery Hyde "Henry James & Theodora Bosanquet" / Norman Levine "We All Begin in a Little Magazine" / Arthur Bestor "In Defence of Intellectual Integrity" / Abdul Wahab al-Bayati "'Ain-al-Shams: or the Metamorphoses of Ibn-'Arabi in his Tran…saltion of Desires'" / Andrew Shonfield "Thinking About the Past" / Rayner Heppenstall "The Murder of Jean Jaures".
Published by McGraw Hill, NY, 1963
- Hardcover
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover w/DJ. Condition: Used-Very Good/Used-Very Good. McGraw Hill, NY. Used-Very Good/Used-Very Good. 1963. Hardcover w/DJ. 8vo., 347 pp., blank flyleaf has small piece removed probably an ownership name. . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).
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Encounter February 1983 / John McGahern "Parachutes" (story) / George Urban in Conversation with Daniel Bell / Mary Kenny "In the Driver's Seat" / Mary Midgley "Duties Concerning Islands" / Roger Scruton "The Real Stoppard" / Dannie Abse "A Meeting with Robert Graves" / Malcolm Bradbury "Struggling Westward America & the Coming of Modernism (II)
Melvin J Lasky & Anthony Thwaite (Editors) / John McGahern "Parachutes" (story) / George Urban in Conversation with Daniel Bell / Mary Kenny "In the Driver's Seat" / Mary Midgley "Duties Concerning Islands" / Roger Scruton "The Real Stoppard" / Dannie Abse "A Meeting with Robert Graves" / Malcolm Bradbury "Struggling Westward America & the Coming of Modernism (II)
Published by Encounter, 1983
- Softcover
- Magazine / Periodical
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. John McGahern "Parachutes" (story) / George Urban in Conversation with Daniel Bell / Mary Kenny "In the Driver's Seat" / Mary Midgley "Duties Concerning Islands" / Roger Scruton "The Real Stoppard" / Dannie Abse "A Meeting with Robert Graves" / Malcolm Bradbury "Struggling Westward Ame…rica & the Coming of Modernism (II).
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GREAT UNTOLD STORIES OF FANTASY AND HORROR
Norton, Alden H. & Moskowitz, Sam (editors)(Count Leigh de Hamong; Cleveland Moffett; Norman Douglas; Sarath Kumar Ghosh; Robert W. Chambers; W. C. Morrow; Clothilde Graves; Winston Spencer Churchill; Huan Lee; Wardon Allan Curtis; H. P. Lovecraft
Published by Pyramid Books, 1969
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Homeless Books, Berlin, GermanyHomeless Books
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. Very nice looking collectible horror / fantasy paperbook. First edition, october 1969. Includes Lovecraft's The Dreams in the Witchhouse. Cover creased in corners, spine very slightly cracked. See photos.
THE MALAHAT REVIEW. NUMBER 35, JULY 1975. An International quarterly of Life and Letters. A Gathering in Celebration of the Eightieth Birthday of Rober Graves.
(Graves, Robert) Skelton, Robin and Thomas, William David (Editors).
Published by University of Victoria, Victoria BC 1975., 1975
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Add to basket8vo. 188pp. Tipped in colour portrait frontispiece and b/w. illustrations. Paperback in rubbed original pictorial ornage wrapps. lettered in black, rubbed. US$22.
Language: English
Published by Cecil Palmer, London, England, 1923
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- First Edition
Seller: Charles Bartman, Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.Charles Bartman, Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Contributions by Thomas Hardy, W.H. Davies, Pelligrini, T.E. Lawrence, J.C. Ransom, Sir Edward Burne- Jones, E. Rickword, David Garnett, John Doyle, Enoch Soames, Max Beerbohm, Philip Guedalla, Frand Dobson, Edmund Blunden, Elizabeth Drury, Siegfried Sassoon, B.K. Mallik,…Pamela Bianco, Robert Graves, William Nicholson, W.J. Turner, Randolph Caldecott; covers lightly soiled with bumped corners; most of spine missing with a few pieces present; illustrated with 9 full page colored and black and white drawings by Vincent Brooks, Day & Sons Ltd.; letterpress by The Westminster Press, Covent Garden; folio; with 60 pages.
Published by Doubleday And Company, Inc., Garden City, 1963
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- First Edition
Seller: The History Place, Palestine, TX, U.S.A.The History Place
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Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Commentary and notes by Graves on Lawrence's communications to him and commentary and notes by Basil Liddell Hart on Lawrence's communications to him. This material was produced by Lawrence at the time that Graves was preparing his biogra…phy ( published in 1927 ) and at the time that Liddell Hart was preparing his biography ( published in 1934 ). This material was originally published in two limited edition volumes shortly after Lawrence's death. The work is published here as one volume with the permission of the Lawrence Trustees who hold the copyright to his work. The Trustees required that this work not be published until six months after David Garnett's LETTERS which they authorized. Light rubbing to dust jacket at top and bottom of spine.
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ENCOUNTER; No 105, Vol XVIII, No 6, June 1962
Spender, Stephen & Melvin J. Lasky (editors) ; Jorge Luis Brges, Luigi Barzini, Robert Graves, Igo Stravinsky, Et Al.
Published by Encounter, London, 1962
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Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.Rare Book Cellar
Contact seller5-star sellerSoftcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in wrappers. Cover with original drawing by Jean Cocteau.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall.
Published by Carcanet Press, Manchester, 1995
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Add to basketHard. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, light spotting on head of closed edge, boards slightly cocked but binding firm, 9cm closed tear on rear of dust jacket, 1cm closed tear on foot of front jacket, light foxing to dust jacket. Size: 8vo.
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Published by Cecil Palmer, London, 1923
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. This is the third, and final, issue of the periodical edited by William Nicholson and Robert Graves. Internally very good with all plates and contributions from a strong cross section of the major authors and illustrators of the time. Good, only, Illustrated wraps laid down and crudely resp…ined (see photos). William Nicholson etc (illustrator).
Published by Cecil Palmer, London, 1923
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- First Edition
Seller: Blacket Books (PBFA), Edinburgh, United KingdomBlacket Books (PBFA)
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. A good copy in blueish/grey boards. Some wear to spine which is a little chipped at head and tail. No ownership inscription. Moderate foxing to edges and early and late pages. Moderate apparent insect damage to front and rear end-papers. 60 pages. 10 full-page illustrations. Con…tributions by Thomas Hardy, T.E. Lawrence, Edmund Blunden, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves and others. Illustrations by William Nicholson, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Randolph Caldecott and others. This was the last issue of this periodical. Photographs available on request.
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Published by The Folio Society, 2014
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. 2 vols, colour plates & text. Envelope with 4 extra plates. Quarter goat skin and cloth. Original lidded, hinged box. As new condition. No.303/980 copies. Postage will be at cost. Ellis, Alice and Bull, Edith (illustrator).
The Herefordshire Pomona Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the most Esteemed Kinds of Apples And Pears.
HOGG, Robert [1818-1897] & Henry Graves BULL [1818-1885] (Editors).
Published by London: Folio Society, 2014., 2014
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Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, CanadaD & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB)
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Add to basket2 Volumes. folio. pp. xvi, 157; [ff. 9]. 77 colour plates after drawings by Alice Ellis and Edith Bull. numerous text illus. 4 additional colour plates loose in paper sleeve. plate volume in quarter goatskin over gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g.; text volume in full gilt-stamped cloth. matching cloth clamshell box. Facsimile Edition L…imited to 980 numbered copies [+ 20 hors-commerce). Including new essays by Jim Arbury and Michael Twyman. Originally issued in 1876-1885, the Herefordshire Pomona was "one of the finest fruit books ever issued" (Great Flower Books) and the most comprehensive study of the apples and pears grown in Britain ever published, with 432 different varieties all beautifully illustrated on 77 chromolithographed plates. cfGreat Flower Books, p. 59, Nissen BBI 294 & Raphael, An Oak Spring Pomona, 82 (1st Edn.).
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Published by Martin Secker (first two issues), Cecil Palmer (third issue). Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son, London, 1923
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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition. Literary journal with extraordinary roster of contributors, including Max Beerbohm, Siegfried Sassoon, T. E. Lawrence, John Doyle, Enoch Soames, Robert Graves, John Crowe Ransome, John Masefield, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Rockwell Kent, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Lutyens, W…illiam Nicholson, etc. 4to. 32 by 25 cm. Mostly poetry, with also a mix of stories, dialogues, etc. and lovely plates, quite a few in color. All produced handsomely, and though short-lived, the confluence of talent marks these as an unique undertaking. Minor edge chips to wraps of the first volume. Chips along the joints and the spine of the second. Within, the leaves are age toned, with some scattered light foxing. Wraps for first issue, hardcover (paper pastedown) second two issues.
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Published by Cecil Palmer, London, 1923
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerIllustrated. 60 pp. 1 vols. Folio. The last issue of Graves' irregular literary miscellany (two issues of The Owl were published by Martin Secker in 1919) Contributors include Thomas Hardy, David Garnett, Max Beerbohm (an "unpublished sonnet" by Enoch Soames), Pamela Bianco, Siegfried Sassoon, William Nicholson (a caricature), a…nd T. E. Lawrence ("Massacre"). O'Brien B0017 Blue-grey pictorial boards. Very good (spine toned with short split at lower joint). Bookplate of Lawrence scholar Jeremy Wilson and his signature at head from front flyleaf Illustrated. 60 pp. 1 vols. Folio.
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Published by Hereford, England: Jakeman and Carver, -. First edition., 1876
Seller: Natural History Books, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.Natural History Books
Contact seller5-star sellerPp. 453 (un-numbered), 77 full-page fine chromolithographed plates from watercolors by Edith E. Bull, Alice B. Ellis and W.G. Smith, lithographed by G. Severeyns of Brussels, 380 line-drawings of fruit in cross-section as text-figures. Contemporary full dark green pebble cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, original salmon-colo…red endpapers, thick folio (14.75 x 12 inches; 375 x 300 mm). The binding is by Evans and Mackie of Worcester with the publisher's sticker on bottom outer corner of rear endpaper. This work was published under the auspices of the Woolhope Naturalist's Field Club; it is one of the finest fruit books ever published illustrating 432 different varieties of apples and pears. The Pomona was issued in seven parts and sold by subscription; only 600 copies were printed. Offered here is volume 2 only. Volume 1 contains about 221 pages of text, one portrait and 3 uncolored plates. All 77 of the fine chromolithograph plates and accompanying text is found in volume 2. This work was initiated to restore Herefordshire to its fruit-growing supremacy by drawing the attention of growers to the best varieties of fruit available (Sotheby's Magnificent Botanical Books, pg. 49). This volume is a classic of late Victorian natural history. It is the most comprehensive study of the apples and pears grown in England ever published. The Herefordshire orchards have long been known to possess a wide variety of apples and pears. To document this diversity, the Pomona Committee of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club in Hereford made a detailed compilation of apple and pear varieties over a ten year period in the 1860s and early 1870s. This resulted in this comprehensive volume financed by subscription by the nobility and gentry of Herefordshire. Its publication led to the restocking of numerous British orchards with lost varieties of apples and pears. See also Great Flower Books, 1700-1900 (1990), p. 110 and Stafleu and Cowan, 2927. No ownership marks. Just of touch of foxing to the top or bottom margin of six color plates only (plates 6, 9, 17, 60, 65 and 70) - all of the color plates are very bright and clean, there is light foxing to the title page to the following quotation page, additionally the last two text pages show some scattered foxing as do a few other text pages only, the bottom corner of the front cover has an old crease that has been repaired, the cloth on spine has been professionally rebacked with no loss to cloth; a bright, tight and clean copy in very good condition.
