John Leech Illustrators (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very Good HC, no DJ. Red cloth over bevel-edged boards; black and gilt stamped hunting vignette and motif on front cover and spine; blind stamped double rule frame on rear cover. Bright, clean covers; some fading of spine and spine titles and decorations, but all remain legible; small splits at spine head with light rubbing wear; tightly bound; age darkened end papers; gift inscription on front free end paper; some foxing of few prelim and terminal leaves with occasional light foxing interior; otherwise very clean interior; leaves unopened at head edge throughout - never been read; bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown at lower inner corner. 8vo, 405 pp; illustrated with 50 woodcut engravings (4 full page); 25 hand colored steel plate engravings (including title page). No statement indicating this is a subscriber's edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Bound in soft black leather with some leather missing at the front top hinge and the middle of the back hinge (about a half inch and a quarter inch) otherwise in fine condition -- note that the pockets inside the front and back covers are empty -- the frontispiece is a 3 page fold-out, hand-colored (coloured for my English friends) -- all edges are gilt -- Note, the title page states "In Two Parts" Part Two starts at page 141; the pagination is all consecutively numbered.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Leech, W.T. Maud. (illustrator). Complete in six volumes. Ask Mamma, Handley Cross, and Hawbuck Grange, published London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., no date but c.1890-1900; Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour, and Plain Or Ringlets?, Bath: George Bayntum, 1926. Each volume with a coloured frontispiece, and black and white plates & textual vignettes. §The illustrations to Hawbuck Grange are by W.T. Maud; those of the other five volumes are by John Leech. Uniformly bound in original blue cloth, gilt lettering, red, black and gilt decoration. Free endpapers of Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour browned, together with short ink presentation inscription, dated 1944. Bold ink ownership inscription to half-title of Ask Mamma, dated 1904. Name unobrusively erased from verso of frontispiece of Handley Cross. Letter 'A' stamped to verso of front free endpaper of Hawbuck Grange, early and not unattractive. Spines of four volumes a little darkened, but not unattractively so and not enough to much marr the uniform appearance of the set; the huntman's jacket at the foot of Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour is a different shade to that of the other volumes. Two small light marks towards centre of spine of Hawbuck Grange. A very good set. (**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY** - Heavy/overweight item weighing 5.5 kg packed, therefore additional postage will be required - please ask for a prior shipping quote).

[Illustrated Ballads] REISSUE. Octavo (19 x 15cm), pp.[6] 256. With illustrations in-text and to margins by various artists, as well as an engraved frontispiece and a title page decorated in red and gilt. Publisher's blind-decorated blue cloth, with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper, brown endpapers, and all edges gilt. Bookseller's blindstamp to flyleaf, and a binder's ticket to rear flyleaf. Rear hinge starting, but quite firm. A crisp, clean copy with very light occasional spotting. Some toning and rubbing to spine and other extremities. Near fine.

Condition: Good. Wood engraving. 14 x 9 in. (image); 15 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. (sheet). Good, light toning along sheet edges, some tears and loses along sheet edges.Provenance: From the Collection of the late Frederick G. Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Bradbury Agnew & Co, London January 1890 Binding: Hardcover SET OF 6 SUBSRCIPTION EDITIONS WORKS PRINTED FOR SUBSCRIBERS FROM THE PLATES OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION ISSUED BY BRADBURY AGNEW AND CO CIRCA 1890. INCLUDES MR ROMFORDS HOUNDS, PLAIN OR RINGLETS , HAWBUCK GRANGE, ASK MAMMA, HANDLEY CROSS , AND MR SPONGES SPORTING TOUR, WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS. $NRP.

8vo, pp. [2 (blank)], xix, [3], 344, with colour frontispiece and 13 plates (of which 5 in colour with tissue guards); likely lacking one guard; a very good copy in publisher's half vellum with marbled sides, gilt red morocco lettering-piece to spine, top-edge gilt, others unopened, green endpapers; very slightly dust-stained, end-caps lightly bumped.Second edition, with John Leech's original four illustrations and a further ten by G.H. Jalland. Hunting anecdotes by the controversial Grantley Firtzhardinge Berkeley (18001881), first published two years after his early retirement from politics following defeat at the general election of 1852. Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Printed on various color leaves, with a publisher's advertisement on recto of final leaf. Humorous articles, verses, etc., by Dickens, Thackeray, and others. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings designed by Alfred Forrester (known under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill), John Leech, and others. Contemporary bookseller's ticket and later owner's small bookplate on front pastedown, autograph note in pencil on front free endpaper. Contemporary half polished levant and pebbled cloth over boards, gilt decorated spine with red titling label, cream endpapers, all edges gilt. Head and tail of spine and one corner tip neatly refurbished in matching leather, joints are rubbed with light wear at corners, a few small stains on endpapers, very good.

First Edition. [Humour] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (17 x 13cm), pp.[2]; 47; [5]; 59; [1]; 30. With numerous plates and in-text illustrations by multiple artists, includes frontispieces. First two tales with colour-printed title pages. Contemporary olive-green half morocco, matching textured cloth over boards. Gilt titles to upper board and spine, with raised bands and further gilt embellishment to spine. Edges speckled blue and red. Spotting to preliminaries and endpapers, sunning to spine, bumping to corners, wearing to leather at edges. Very Good. A unique text, comprised of three separate editions perhaps combined by the binder or the owner. The first two stories are undated, though 'The Crystal Palace' is a first printing published in 1851. Two classic fairy tales and one contemporary one inspired by the Great Exhibition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. Undated; published ca. 1885 or thereabouts. Six octavo volumes bound in red cloth with gilt & black lettering and decorations. All volumes have steel engraved plates with hand-coloring in watercolors; five of the volumes have been illustrated by John Leech, Hawbuck Grange was illustrated by "Phiz" (Hablot Browne) and W. T. Maud. The full titles are: -Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrock's Hunt. -Hawbuck Grange; or, The Sporting Adventures of Thomas Scott, Esq. -Mr. Romford's Hounds. -Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. -Plain or Ringlets? -Ask Mamma; or, The Richest Commoner in England. Condition: minor age-darkening & dulling to spines which also show minor nicking & slight fraying to top & bottom edges; minor toning to endpapers; otherwise, in very good condition.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1843, 1845, 1846, 1846, 1848. First editions of all five of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books (Smith II.4-6, II.8-9). A Christmas Carol is the first issue with title page printed in red and blue, dated 1843 in Roman numerals; half title and verso of title page printed in blue; "Stave I" on page [1]. The Chimes, first edition, second issue with the publisher's name below the plate on the vignette title page. The Cricket on the Hearth, first edition, second issue with [2pp.] ads. The Battle of Life, first edition, Todd's fifth state of the engraved title page with "A Love Story" in a scroll held by a cupid; terminal ads announce the publication in parts of Dombey and Son and the bound volume of Oliver Twist. The Haunted Man, first edition, first and only issue.All five volumes bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt seasonal stamping unique to each book. Morocco title labels to ribbed spines, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Sangorski & Sutcliffe stamp in gilt to front turn-in of each volume. Original cloth covers and spines bound in rear of all volumes but the last. Housed in an open-ended slipcase, moderately rubbed and toned, covered in the same floral gilt-embellished paper used for endpapers. Near Fine with slightly rubbed spines. Light edge toning to interiors, occasional thumbing and staining and spots of foxing. No writer is more closely associated with Christmas than Charles Dickens, who began with the immortal A Christmas Carol in November 1843. It was published on December 19 and sold so well there were seven editions by the following May. The Chimes followed in December 1844, and three more books appeared in 1845, 1846, and 1848 (two of the title page dates follow the then-common practice of dating a book published in November or December with the coming year). The enduring appeal of Dickens' Christmas stories lies in his unmatched ability to combine sentimentality with melancholy or righteous fury, a balancing act of light and dark. A Christmas Carol, composed as Dickens walked weeping through the dark London streets, was intended to draw attention to the plight of the working poor in London. The Chimes attacks the cruelty and hypocrisy of the rich, and the protagonist of The Cricket on the Hearth contemplates murder. The Haunted Man, the last novella, emphasizes the need to remember past sorrows and hardships. Dickens wanted his Christmas books to be pretty his specifications for the first cut severely into his profits and it is appropriate that these copies have been given jewel-like bindings by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, one of the most famous fine binderies in the English-speaking world. A beautiful set of beautiful stories, illustrated by the leading artists of the day.

First edition. Third issue (with Part I's title, Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds, in solid lettering), in the original twelve monthly parts, May 1864-April 1865. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm).Collating vi, [2], 391, [1], with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates, two to each volume, heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by Hablot K. Brown. Advertisements collate per Schwerdt, save Part VI, which lacks the Note of Lever's Martin, and Part VII, lacking the slip for The Belle of the Village. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. Minimal restoration of spines to a few volumes, tiny chip to fore- edge of Part I, otherwise an excellent and quite lovely set. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. "Although Surtees approached his publishers in July 1861 with the idea of bringing out 'Mr. Facey Romford' they preferred not to undertake the matter until Mr. Leech's services were definitely secured and there would be no questoin of such delays as had occurred in the illustrations of 'Handley Cross.' Leech promised, however, to being in January 1862, and the situation seemed sufficiently secure to set up the type, but just at this time the artist held his first exhibition of oil paintings which proved so successful and diverting that the 'Facey Romford' illustrations were again postponed. Surtees in despair at last offered the book, in August 1864, to The Field, where is was refused. In March of that year Leech finally undertook the drawings, but never lived to complete the work, which was carried on byPhiz" (Field). Field 225. Tooley 475. Schwerdt II, 237. Podeschi 207.