Hinscliff (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Folio contains humerous verse in olde English about naughty King JOhn who has designs on the Abbot's treasures "for except thou canst answer me questions three, thy head shall be smitten from thy bodie"with engraved depiction of royal sport hunting an abbot etc. These large plates produced by photolithography by Sprague and Co London. The plates are loose but complete. Owner's inscription dated 1889.Covers have some age fading but no major blemishes. Still a rare treasure of a book which is in itself a piece of printing history. Note that to send outside the UK will incur additional shipping.

, unpaginated, illustrated title page followed by 16 leaves of black and white illustrations and decorated text, blank leaves at front and rear Limited Edition of 100 copies , light soiling to boards, slight bumping to spine ends, few small stains to rear board, internally clean and crisp, tightly bound, externally good, internally very good condition , original cream cloth with black and red decorative titles to front board, red page edges Quarto, 39 x 29 cm Hardback ISBN:

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Good binding. A copy of King John and the Abbot of Canterbury, illustrated by William Hinscliff. An amusing, rhyming ditty about the heavy taxes of bad King John. Heavily illustrated, with capitals in red. Illustrated half title and title page. Loss to the fore edge of the title page, not affecting the text; foxing to the preliminaries. Surface loss to the front and rear boards, and some silverfishing. Quarter maroon cloth over blue pictorial paper boards. Beveled edges. Folio. Good binding.

Hardcover. M.W. Hinscliff (illustrator). Red half Morocco with marbled paper and gilt ridges and lettering to spine; folio size; lovely maroon end papers; 16 individual pages, each one heavily illustrated. From a Dec. 1886 issure of The Book Buyer: "Illustrated and set forth in appropriate fashion by William Hinscliff. This unique book is printed in Rubricated Court Text. It contains several full-page illustrations, and each page of text is enriched by curious marginal designs, inserted by Mr. Hinscliff or copied from ancient stone sculptures or brasses." The illustrations are charming and beautiful and done in b/w with red accents, and the main large letters of the text are in red. The textual poem is wonderfully cheeky and beautifully rhymed. Fine interior; VG covers with some rubbing along edges and spine.