Leech John Illustr (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover in Good-plus condition, small 8vo, pages: 425,6 ads, Brown cloth with elaborate bline-stamped botanical border, gold decoration on top board, spine titles and decoration in gold, yellow end-papers, frontis and 5 hand-colored illustrations by Leech (as called for) with tissues (note: plates are at different locations from what is listed on the List of Illustrations page, which is not uncommon with this title). Early printing with no "A" on copyright page. Moderate wear, tips frayed, spine ends worn, contents lightly soiled and tanned. Bookseller accession no.: 16702.

Original publisher's cream cloth spine, light-blue paper-covered boards, title on label spine, facsimile [1858], thick 8vo: tipped-in coloured frontispiece, illustration frontispiece, xvi, 526pp., 12 other tipped-in coloured plates, 69 text-illustrations, lists illustrations, table of contents. Spare title label in rear. Untrimmed. Fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo (9½" tall). Superb full red crushed morocco, by TOUT. Gilt raised bands and pallets, fine gilt tooling to panels. Boards framed with gilt floral corner tool. Gilt doublures with floral patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt. Slightly foxed. Armorial bookplate. Original issues of Bentley's Magazine. Bound with special title page, contents and a preface dated 1889 by the collector John Waugh. Autograph letter in black ink bound in, dated 6 March 1863, 2 pages. An exceptional deluxe binding by TOUT binders, with an autograph letter by the illustrator. Leech's letter is to Morgan Dormer mentioning oil sketches, hunting, with a small rebus sketch appearently meaning nobody (legs, no body). Extensively illustrated by Leech with fine engraved plates. Uniformly bound with our other selections from Bentley's Miscellany. 0.0. Book.