John Bancks Ed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Almost 200 pages of colour reproductions of the strips that appeared in newspapers. Information about the cartoonist, James Charles Bancks (1889-1952) who was born at Enmore, an inner Sydney suburb, the son of John Bancks, a railway porter of Irish descent, and his wife Margaret, nee Beston. Brought up in Hornsby among a family he remembered as a 'living comic strip', Bancks left school at 14, worked as a wool clerk, office boy and lift driver, and practised drawing in his spare time. In 1911 his first cartoons were published in "The Comic Australian" and from 1914 in the "Bulletin". Following the "Bulletin's" decision to guarantee him Eight Pounds a week for his drawings, he became a full-time artist and took lessons from Julian Ashton and Dattilo Rubbo. He was sindicated in overseas publications. A significant contributor to Australian social history. The dust jacket has a little wear. Several copies are available. 192 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size J: 12"-13" Tall (304-330mm). J. C. Bancks (illustrator).…

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Condition: Very Good Minus. 1st Edition. Complete two volume set. Contemporary full mottled calf leather bindings. Spines with five raised bands, morocco title labels, gilt decoration to compartments. Wear to ends of spine, with both tail bands loose. Cracking to joints, front board of 'Misc. Works' is loose but held by cords. Wear to corners. Very clean text throughout both volumes. Engraved portrait frontis to Volume I, and Prior's monument to Volume II (with a tear within the illustration). The first London printing of the first collected edition of Prior's works and autobiography (preceded by the 1739 Dublin edition). This work was issued simultaneously as a two volume set, priced at 12 shillings to the title page, and two separate volumes priced at 6 shillings each. This is a uniformly bound set of the two single volumes. In this example the two dedications have been swapped during binding. ESTC: T62166 (Volume I); N35208 (Volume II). Provenance: From the library of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, with his engraved bookplate to front pastedown endpaper in both volumes. Boyle was a friend of Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson and Alexander Pope, and published several works of his own. His father, Charles Boyle, was the envoy in Flanders in 1713 and worked with Prior during the negotiations that led to the signing of the first treaty of Utrecht. . Overall condition is Very Good Minus. Size: 5.25 x 8 inches (13 x 20 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. vi, 472, [8]; viii, xcv, [1], iv, 380. …