Illustrations Thomas Stothard (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. containing thirteen facsimile illustrations in colour by John Massey Wright, a pupil of Thomas Stothard (illustrator). Firmly bound, decorated green cloth boards. Split and frayed back spine hinge, chipping on the spine edges. Minor scuffing on corners of cover. Inner hinges are slightly cracked. Marks on some pages inside.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrations by Thomas Stothard (illustrator). Reprint. Bound in medium tan cloth with elaborate blind stamped images of Crusoe on front cover and on spine; simpler blind stamped decoration of back cover; gold and black lettering on both front cover and on spine; edge wear to boards particularly at top and bottom of spine and at corners; previous owner's name on verso of front end paper; some foxing or light staining on a few of the early pages; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; twelve illustrations by Thomas Stothard and a portrait of Daniel Defoe; 498 pages of text is followed by a 16 page catalogue of John Hogg publications. Book.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Bickers & Son, London, 1885. Three-Quarter Leather. No Jacket. Four three-quarter leather hardcovers with marbled boards; leather is very dark blue/green morocco with gilt borders; gold lettering, lines and decorations to spines; four raised bands; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers; b&w plates. Near Fine condition : a libray set with pocket./plate in rear and a lovely plate in front of the library in Franconia, NH featuring the state's historical natural attraction 'The Old Man of the Mountain'. straight and tight. Finely bound and very attractive. Photos available.

First Stockdale Edition. Two octavo volumes (23.5cm); three-quarter brown crushed morocco and marbled paper-covered boards bound by Tout & Sons, spines in six compartments, with five raised bands, and titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spines; marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; xii,389,[1]pp, with engraved frontispiece, title page, and seven plates of illustrations (Vol.I); vi,456,[14]pp ads, with engraved frontispiece, title page, and six plates of illustrations (Vol.II). Both volumes showing modest wear to spine ends and board edges, some wear to corners, though hinges are sound. Vol.I shows some very faint foxing to text edges, pronounced dust-soil to left margin of p.238, and a repair to lower right corner of p.263. Vol.II has a small repair to margin of p.83/84, p.89/90 skilfully remargined, with some old, faint dampstaining affecting right edge of text from p.91-290, resulting in some scattered foxing; a handsome, Very Good set. An important, early edition of Defoe's classic 1719 novel the first with illustrations by Thomas Stothard (1755-1834), and the first to print George Chalmers's biography The Life of Daniel De Foe (bound at the end of Vol.II). Sabin 19285; ESTC T72291; Lowndes II, p.613.