Max Crombie Ed (14 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. Paperback. Stiff, pictorial white wrappers. Stapled binding. No date. 23pp. B&w illustrations. #27 0f the Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithology series. Covers bit soiled. Minor corner bump. Very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. William Littlewood (illustrator). 8vo. Paperback. Stiff, pictorial white wrappers. Stapled binding. No date. 23pp. B&w illustrations. #29 of the Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithology series. Covers lightly soiled. Very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. LITTLEWOOD, William (decorations) 24pp The Lute, Lyre and Lotus series of Minithologies. pamphlet.

paperback. Condition: Good. Previous owner's ink inscription. c 1943 copy Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Littlewood, William (illustrator). Covers A Little Marked. 23P, Illus.The Lute, Lyre And Lotus Series Of Minithologies.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Littlewood, William (illustrator). Covers A Little Marked. 22P, Illus. The Lute, Lyre And Lotus Series Of Minithologies.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. William Littlewood (illustrator). Knights Press Ltd. Northwood, n.d. c.1946. Decorated card covers, 24pp. stapled, decorations by William Littlewood. Light wear to covers and previous owner's name on inside front cover, contents very good. Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies No.2.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. William Littlewoo (illustrator). Knights Press Ltd. Northwood, n.d. c.1946. Decorated card covers, 24pp. decorations by William Littlewood. Light wear to covers and previous owner's name on inside front cover, contents very good. Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies No.28. A little collection of gastronomic delicacies taken from various works of the 19th.C.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. Gardiner, Gerald (illustrator). The Lute, Lyre and Lotus series of Minithologies - No.30.Some minor rubbing and foxing to covers, however internally clean and tidy Size: 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Paperback booklet in fair condition. Shelfwear to all edges of grubby and discoloured covers. Bumps to corners. Pages tanned with some foxing throughout. Inscription opposite title page. 12mo. 23pp.

(Knights Press Ltd. Northwood, nd c.1946). A softcover. Publisher's decorated card covers. 24 pages. Decorations by William Littlewood. Hinges rusted and light foxing here-and-there to the covers otherwise VG indeed. Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies No.28. A little collection of gastronomic delicacies taken from various works of the 19th century. No inscriptions. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good Indeed. William Littlewood (illustrator). A very scarce booklet of poetry, illustrated throughout by William Littlewood. A very scare booklet of poetry, in original colour illustrated paper wraps.An individual volume of number 12 from the series 'Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies'.Featuring charming frequent vignette illustrations rendered by British artist William Littlewood, whose work is held in the Scarborough Art Gallery. Bound in original paper. Externally, very smart. Very slight rusting to binding. Mild spotting to covers. Slight chipping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Very Good Indeed. book.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. William Littlewood; D. W. Burley; Gerald Gardiner (illustrator). An unusual collection of the illustrated Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies, with poems and prose from Lord Tennyson, Ben Jonson and Charles Dickens, among others. A very scarce collection of twelve volumes in one work, in a full calf binding. Twelve volumes from the charming Lute, Lyre and Lotus Minithologies, with poetry and prose from well-known writers, poets and playwrights such as: Shakespeare, Tennyson, Ben Jonson, Charles Dickens, Charles Lamb, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dibdin, and S. T. Coleridge, among others. Illustrated throughout. This collection contains: Volume I: Hymn to Venus, An Anthology in Miniature of Poems by Robert Herrick Volume III: And the Toast is. A Miniature Anthology of Drinking Songs seasoned with a little prose Volume IV: Peacock Pie, A Miniature Anthology of Good Living Volume V: Salt Sea Horses, An Anthology in Miniature of Nautical Verse Volume VI: The Proud of Heart, A Miniature Anthology in Praise of the English Character Volume VII: Nightingales' Tongues, An Anthology in Miniature of Love Songs Volume X: The Masque of Hymen, A Miniature Anthology Relating to Courtship and Marriage Volume XII: Lute Strings, An Anthology in Miniature of Love Lyrics etc Volume XIX: Words on the Wing, A Miniature Anthology of Bird Poetry Volume XXIV: Deep Sea Ditties, An Anthology in Miniature of Sea Songs and Shanties Volume XXVIII: Spotlight on Lucullus, A Miniature Anthology on the Pleasures of the Table Volume XXIX: The Yule Log, A Seasonable Anthology in Miniature In a full calf binding. Externally smart, with faint marks to the boards and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. CROMBIE, Max. (ed.) c1946 [23] pp. Knights Press Ltd 7 3/8" x 4 1/2" Decorations by William Littlewood Stapled wraps Baked Elephant s Foot. Just one of the exotic dishes that features in Spotlight on Lucullus, A miniature Anthology of the pleasures of the Table which is twenty-eighth in the series of minithologies created by a certain Max Crombie, some of the others being devoted to bird poetry, Christmas, love lyrics, the prose of Richard Jefferies, drink songs and the four seasons. Originating from the modest Knights Press in Northwood, Middlesex, from c 1940 to 1942, these booklets were slightly smaller than Penguin paperbacks and certainly shorter, being, in most cases, no more than twenty four pages in length. Well known book illustrators provided the decorations in the form of vignettes. The subject matter covered was presumably chosen to lift wartime spirits ( though the irony of describing banquets at a time of wartime shortages was doubtless not lost on many readers,) and perhaps to inject a little nationalist pride into a demoralised populace. As for the account of the baked elephant s foot, it was supplied by the French gastronome Le Vaillant, who witnessed the culinary practices of the Hottentots while travelling through Africa.