Gresley Rev John (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Quarto bound with red cloth at the spine and paper-covered boards with illustration on front cover. B&W illustrations with one tinted with red. Condition: spine heavily worn, rubbed & frayed; corners rubbed through & rounded; hinges worn and bit loose but still holding; light scattered foxing; else good.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Quarto. 29cm x 23cm Red boards with tan pictorial paste-on to front cover. Drawings of churches, and sacred relics in England. Some foxing. This Society was established in the year 1859, at Ilam,in the County of Stafford, for the purpose of collecting amateur Drawings in pen and ink. The sketches are intended to illustrate the topography of Great Britain and Ireland, the scenery, churches, manor-houses, and monastic ruins of the land. An annual publication.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. b/w Illustration (illustrator). First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. In cloth backed pictorial boards, 4to, unpag. Illustrated profusely. Includes list of subscribers plus, detailed contents descriptions for each of the 63 full page illustrations. A scarce early issue by the Anastasic Drawing Society published in 1861, the society sought to 'delineate remains of Antiquity' through drawings. (spine strip removed/missing, heavy wear and rubbing to outer boards, inner hinges cracking, light toning to page edges).