Mauchline Ware Binding (4 results)

Mauchline Ware. Condition: Very Good. First edit, thus. xxxi; (i); 160 pages. All edges in gilt. SIX MOUNTED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS with printed titles below. Morocco backed gilt spine rebacked preserving the original spine, with Mauchline ware wooden boards with one central photographic transfer print and four engraved transfer prints on the upper cover. Rear cover slightly chipped at the edge.

Mauchline Ware. Condition: Very Good. (xviii); (7)-375 pages. All edges in gilt. Illustrated. ELEVEN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS by George Washington Wilson, mounted with printed verse below, including a vignette photograph on the title-page. Some foxing mainly affecting the endpapers, light offsetting on to the text page opposite the photographs. Original morocco backed Mauchline ware wooden boards lightly rubbed. Made from wood grown in Queen Mary's garden, with a photographic transfer print of Stirling Castle on the upper cover. Gernsheim, 455.

Mauchline Ware. Condition: Very Good. First edit, thus. (vi); (1)-206; (i) pages. Gilt gauffered page edges. New marbled endpapers, title-page very lightly thumbed. 15 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS by Thomas Annan mounted with printed titles. Original morocco backed Mauchline ware wooden boards, made from wood grown on Flodden Field, with oval engraved vignette of Etal Castle transfer printed on the upper cover, with four engraved vignettes in each corner, with an engraving of Twisel Bridge on the lower cover with scroll decorations in the corner, neatly rebacked preserving the original spine. Gernsheim, 323. With the rarely recorded retailer's name of A. & R. Robb of Colstream printed on both covers. "These publisher's names probably appear on no more than one piece in a hundred and are therefore well worth looking for." (John Baker, Mauchline Ware, pp24/25).

1 vols. 12mo. 1 vols. 12mo. A charming little volume in a lovely tartan binding. Maggs, Bookbinding in the British Isles p. 202 Mauchline Ware binding of wooden boards with a red, green blue and black tartan design transferred from paper onto sycamore boards and heavily varnished, with "M'Duff" stamped in gold at the upper margin of the upper cover, maroon morocco spine in six compartments tooled in gold, a.e.g.; former owner's signtures on upper blank, minor rubbing to binding but nonetheless very good.