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Published by George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1917
Seller: Moriarty's, Grimsby, LINCO, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Victor Prout (illustrator). Dark green embossed boards and a leather spine embossed with gilt. Sixteen black and white full page illustrations and several smaller images decorate the text. Front board has a couple of blemishes, leather on spine is split, wear to head of spine, corners bumped. Contents are very clean but pages are slightly age toned. Binding is tight & square. School emblem in gilt to rear board for Municipal Secondary School for Girls Ipswich. Previous owners inscription to FFEP. Also enclosed is handwritten copy of "The glory of the Garden" by R. Kipling. laid in.
Published by George G Harrap, London, 1906
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Prout, Victor (illustrator). Tan leather spine with gilt title, date and decoration.Shows slight shelf wear.Front cover green with gilt decoration and title. Top page edge gilt.Marbled eps.Inscription dated 1906 on title page.16 full page illustrations by Prout.Closed page edges foxed, internally clean and bright.245pp.
Published by London. George G. Harrap & Company. 2 & 3 Portsmouth Street Kingsway, London, 1917
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Decorative Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 16 illustrations by Victor Prout, Evelyn Paul, Victor Venner and W. Paget (illustrator). Size 7½" x 5½" 245 pages. Semi soft red leather cover with blind stamped Roman villa style design on the front cover with gilt titles and coat of arms. Gilt titles and gilt Roman column design on the spine. Top page edge gilt, other page edges rough cut, school prize label on the front pastedown. Condition very good, cover edges slightly rubbed, internal contents clean. Selected excerpts from Charles Dickens stories, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, The Story of Smike and his Teacher, The Story of Little Nell, The Story of Paul and Florence Dombey, The Story of Pip as Told by Himself, The Story of Little Dorritt. With 16 illustrations by Victor Prout, Evelyn Paul, Victor Venner and W. Paget. Written for children as an introduction to the writings of Dickens. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by George G. Harrap & Company, London, 1915
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Decorative Buckram. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Victor Prout, Evelyn Paul, Victor Venner and W. Paget (illustrator). 1915. Size 7.5" x 5.5", 245 pages. Green buckram covers with ornate lighter green stamped decoration and titles to the front cover. Tan leather spine section with gilt titles tooled bands and ornate gilt design in the compartments. Blue pictorial pastedowns and endpapers. Condition very good, corners edges and spine rubbed, owner's name in section on front endpaper else contents clean. Selected excerpts from Charles Dickens stories, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, The Story of Smike and his Teacher, The Story of Little Nell, The Story of Paul and Florence Dombey, The Story of Pip as Told by Himself, The Story of Little Dorritt. With 16 illustrations by Victor Prout, Evelyn Paul, Victor Venner and W. Paget. Written for children as an introduction to the writings of Dickens. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.
Published by George G Harrap & Co Ltd, London, 1927
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint (first published 1906). Hardback copy in grey patterned cloth boards with black lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 245pp. B/w frontispiece, 7 b/w plates throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (26/7).
Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1926-1930, London, 1926
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. M.L Bower; Victor Prout; Not Stated (illustrator). Selection of decoratively bound illustrated children's books from the Told Through the Ages Series Five illustrated volumes from the Told Through the Ages Series for children. Illustrations in all volumes collated and complete. Includes Boyhood Stories of Famous men, Stories from Dickens, Stories from Scottish History, Stories from Old English and Celtic Sources and Women of the Classics. Whilst Katherine Dunlop Cather mixes fact and fiction for her stories about the childhoods of men such as Mozart, Chopin, and Rembrandt, J. Walker McSpadden reconfigures the stories of Dickens by focussing on solely one their protagonists, including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Pip. Stories from Scottish history offers selected stories from Walter Scott's Tales of a Grandfather, whilst Britain Long ago retells Celtic folktales and Women of the classics puts the spotlight on classical characters such as Helen, Circe, Calypso and Nausicaa Reprints dated between 1926 and 1930, in decorative bindings. Boyhood, Stories of Famous men and Britain Long Ago have sticker from 'Harold Cleaver limited, Bookseller, Bath' on front pastedown. Stories of famous men has ink inscription of prior owners name to recto of front endpaper and a blind stamp for 'Westfield House, Hadstock, Somerset' on this page, whilst Britain Long Ago also has ink inscription to Bill from his mother. Other three copies have prize sticker's on either the pastedown or rector of front endpaper for Bruce Arundale, J.W Walker, and Joy Forde from different schools. Stories from Dickens has Highfield College gilt stamp to exterior of front board. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. All generally smart, with early signs of wear at the joints. Stories from Scottish history slightly more rubbed than others. All only lightly bumped with minimal wear to the extremities. Blind stamp reading 'Westfield House, Hadstock, Somerset' to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean across the set, with some spotting at the endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.