Mrs Condy (3 results)

pp. viii, 47, (i). Lithographed portrait on India Paper, 4 tinted lithographs of Yachts. Original blue cloth, gilt device on front cover, all edges gilt, a 'perfect' [gutta-percha] binding, all leaves loose, plates foxed and the portrait, three plates and the front end-papers with a semi-circular damp-mark on the fore-edge margin, slight marginal foxing of the text. *The Subscribers List accounts for 148 copies only, 74 of which were sold to Plymouth residents.…

Cloth. Condition: Good. First edition. A scarce series of yachting anecdotes, arranged and narrated by the wife of British maritime painter Nicholas Matthews Condy, with his sketches. First edition.Scarce. The Subscribers List accounts for 149 copies only, 74 of which were sold to Plymouth residents.Dedicated to the memory of the author's husband, maritime painter Nicholas Matthew Condy, who died the year prior to this publication.A slim volume offering a charming account of a yachting cruise, including a description of a frightening thunderstorm.In the publisher's pebbled, blind stamped cloth binding, with gilt to front cover.With a portrait frontispiece and four lithographic plates from Condy's sketches. Collated, complete. In the publisher's pebbled, blind stamped cloth binding, with gilt to front cover.Externally, smart, with mild rubbing and bumping to extremities and light damp stain to the front board upper corner. Internally, generally firmly bound, with front free endpaper and frontispiece working loose, the latter being at risk of detaching with further handling. Pages are bright, with light scattered spotting throughout. Short closed tear to margin of signature B1. Good. T. G. Dutton; N. M. Condy (illustrator). book.…

First edition. Frontispiece portrait of Nicholas Matthews Condy, four other lithograph plates by T.G. Dutton after N.M. Condy. 4to. Original gilt and blindstamped blue cloth, a.e.g., some minor discolouration. viii, 47pp. London, Ackerman & Co.,  Rare; OCLC lists only a handful of copies.