Paget Guy Major (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. Corners are bumped. Covers have some light wear, and some staining. Endpapers have foxed. Edges of pages have some staining, but it does not affect the inside pages. Front free endpaper has a gift inscription in pen.

Condition: Good. 1934. No Edition Remarks. 292 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt. Black and white illustrations on plates. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Plates are bright and clear. Illustration coloured in. Previous owner's inscription to front paste-down. Binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Clean hardback tightly bound in quarter brown cloth over yellow cloth with gilt titles and decoration, cloth has minor rubbing with previous owner's name & date (1944) on front endpaper, marks on pages 175-180 from pressed flower. 368 pages, photos on plates, diagrams in the text, appendices, index. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. APPEARS LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to large hard cover book.Pages are very clean, bright and tight.Plain green boards. Charles Simpson (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Edgar Backus, 1934. First Edition. Hard Cover. Incorporating 'The Druid's' Chapters from 'Silk and Scarlet', and 'Post and Paddock', and several hitherto unpublished letters from George Osbaldeston. With 40 full-page illustrations, 25 of them in color, and many vignettes in black and white, by Charles Simpson. No dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine. Front board is slightly warped, top corner is lightly bumped, all other corners a bit turned. Pages are clean and unmarked with light foxing on first few and last few pages. Binding is tight, hinges are perfect. Good reading copy. Charles Simpson (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st edition in dark green cloth with barely bumped (not rubbed) tips, spine ends bumped with 2 small splits in cloth at head. Mapped rep. No names, tears or soil. 292 pp Incorporating "The Druid's" Chapters from "Silk and Scarlet," and "Post and Paddock," and several hitherto unpublished letters from George Osbaldeston. 40 full page illustrations by Charles Simpson. 14 in color, plus b/w vignettes.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Quarto, 292 pages, index, illustrated. The edges of the spine are worn with some loss, internally VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter dark brown leather gilt with brown cloth-covered boards gilt, small 4to., xiii, (5), 292 pages, 45 inserted full-page illustrations, 25 in color, and numerous vignettes. Incorporating "The Druid's" Chapters from "Silk and Scarlet" and "Post and Paddock" and several hitherto unpublished letters from George Osbaldeston. One of 100 numbered copies of the "Collectors Edition", printed upon special paper and bound thus. Brief inscription, else a clean, very good copy with moderate wear, in archival mylar.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Signed limited first edition, in all 375 this being number 7 of the first ten not offered for sale, signed by the editor on the Publisher's Note and the coloured tipped in frontis piece signed by Lionel Edwards, octavo, full blue leather, light wear to corners, two small bruises on front sunning to spine, gilt decoration on front and titles across spine, top edges gilt, toning to untrimmed edges otherwise internally clean and bright, illustrated with 61 tipped in plates of which four in full colour, 368 pages. a very handsome beautifully produced volume. Heavy item (1.5kg net weight) may require additional for shipping. [QH] [QP]. EDWARDS, Lionel et alia. (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1934, 1st. Quarto. xiii, 292pp. Illustrated. Publisher's dark green buckram cloth. A little rubbed. Former owner's signature to f.e.p. Otherwise contents generally clean and bright. Overall a 'Very Good' copy. Charles Simpson (illustrator).

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Green cloth (a little worn), 40 full page illustrations, 25 in colour and many vignettes in black and white by Charles Simpson. Size: Small Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Sports & Pastimes; Inventory No: 21261. For further info on this title, click on the "Ask Bookseller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We will try to reply within two working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying. …

Condition: Good. First edition (hardback), limited to 100 copies (this is copy number 19). 8vo (26cm by 20cm), xvii, 292pp. 40 plates, including 25 in colour, by Charles Simpson. Original quarter brown morocco, brown cloth boards, top edge gilt, dustwrapper. Foxing to the endpapers and the edges of the text block, else the book is in very good condition. The dustwrapper is in good minus condition (scuffed and chipped, closed tears to two of the folds); the dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.…

Hardback. First Edition. Incorporating The Druids Chapters from Silk and Scarlet and Post and Paddock and several hitherto unpublished letters from George Osbaldeston Dark green cloth boards with gilt titling to spine Boards a little bumped to edges but clean and tight With 40 fullpage illustrations 25 of them in colour and many vignettes in black and white Map to rear endpaper A good tight copy pp 292. Charles Simpson (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A smart first edition of this illustrated work on sports and hunting. First edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, fourteen colour plates, twenty-three monochrome plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of writings on hunting and equestrian sports, with reference to the life and letters of Richard Christian, or Dick Christian, an English horseman. This work contains writing from Reverend John Empson, a British clergyman known and respected by Christian, who was best known as the famous "Flying Parson", because of his insatiable and nerveless passion for hunting. Written and edited by Major Thomas Guy Frederick Paget, a British soldier and Conservative Party politician, and Lionel Irvine, a British editor. Illustrated by Charles Walter Simpson, an English painter. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally. firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot. Minor age toning to the endpapers. Very Good. Charles Simpson (illustrator). book.…

Very good, clean, with light minor foxing. Neat bookplate inside front board. Green cloth boards show minor signs of wear but gilt still bright. In a complete good dust jacket that is not price clipped with 30 shilling price on front flap. Slight edgewear on spine extremities repaired with magic tape on reverse that does not stain through.All illustrations present including those plates in colour and photogravure. Registered airmail takes about 2 weeks anywhere in the world. A heavy book that may require a small amount of extra postage. Hardback. With dj.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st edition hardcover in olive green cloth covered boards with 90% of a bright gilt title on the darkened spine and gilt fox mask with crossed horn and crop on center of frt cover. Tips and spine ends bumped and lightly rubbed. Green cloth is hard to describe, it is almost as if it has a 'felted' outer layer that is lifting in spots and gone missing in others. The rear gutter is cracked 4" from head and also 3" up from foot but inner hinge papers and webbing are secure so the boards and backstrip are snugly attached and going nowhere. A solid working copy = all there but not pretty. Internally the 178 pp text is crisp and bright with one tidy owner's name/date on second blank fep. The balance of the book is fresh and fine with a tissue guarded frontis and 6 others in color, 9 in Photogravure, 95 in Sepia and 5 line illustrations in text. Included is a professionally reproduced, color illustrated dust wrapper from the Backus edition with a $10.00 US price present on frt flap. Age-toned and moderately soiled jacket has 1/2" loss at the head of spine and two tiny chips at upper flap folds. The jacket backstrip is darkened and the title is barely legible. Book still displays well from the front with it's attractive, color hunt scene showing some chipping at the periphery and a few creases along the left edge. An exhaustive work on the history of Mr. John Ferneley who lived during foxhunting's Golden Age = during the end of the 18th and into the 19th centuries. Each chapter begins with an illuminated first letter. This tome is over sized and will incur add'l postage for priority mail or international destinations. John Ferneley, the Leicestershire sporting artist was known to the author through his grandfather who, in a living will, gifted the young Guy, the Paget family estate when he was all of seven years old. When grandfather come to visit and stay at his old home he would tell Guy all about the pictures, furniture and other things, but particularly about the horse pictures present at the Paget family estate. There were a lot by Ferneley. Guy's grandfather, an accomplished sporting artist in his own right, was a life-long friend of the Ferneleys. This influence on young Guy's mind began his interest in sporting art in general, and in Ferneley's in particular. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Melton Mowbray Of John Ferneley (1782-1860) ~ by Major Guy Paget, D.L. Dedicated by Special Permission to H.R.H. The Prince Of Wales. Pub by Edgar Backus, Leicester 1931, 1st Edition; no dust jacket bound in dark green cloth with gilt emblem of fox on front cover and title in gilt on spine; spine has faded and there are some fade marks on front and back covers, also there is a tear of c1 of the cloth at top of spine to back board, top edge is green; large 4to 8 ½ x 11 ½ , 198pp + 7 colour plates incl frontispiece with tissue, 8 plates in photogravure & 66 plates in Sepia; some slight foxing on pages at front and back; otherwise book is in vg condition. Book weighs 1.550 kg.…

Cloth. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Heavy dampstaining and foxing to exterior, spine heavily discoloured, chipped foot of spine. Foxed closed edges and endpapers with slight damp wrinkling to some pages, period ink inscrip. to ffep, else pp clean and bright, tight bind. Size: 4to.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1931 Edgar Backus first edition SIGNED BY MAJOR GUY JOHN PAGET + interesting typed article on Hugo Meynell of the Quorn.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth boards, spine faded but gilt titling still bright and clear. Top and bottom of spine have some wear. The binding is firm. No inscriptions.Text and the many coloured and black and white plates by Ferneley, and others, are clean and crisp. A really very nice copy of this book, with a list of the subscribers at the front and some history of the artist, about whom the author felt not enough was known.…

Condition: Very Good. Limited edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter burgundy leather, donkey brown cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine with gilt fox to the front cover, gilt upper edges. Quarto 10'' x 8''. Hand written number 72 of 100 Limited Edition Copies, printed upon special paper. Contains 292 printed pages of text with 40 full page illustrations, 25 in colour and many monochrome vignettes, hunting map to the rear paste down. Leather spine ends rubbed, foxing to the free end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shallow chips to the spine ends and corners, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. HUNTS & GAME SHOOTING.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A signed first edition of this biographical study of British artist John Ferneley, illustrated with his own work. The first edition of this work, signed by the author, Major Guy Paget, to the front pastedown. Paget was a British soldier and Conservative Party politician, who alongside this work published a number of biographies of Medieval Women.This work is a biographical study of the English painter John Ferneley, regarded as one of Britain's great equine artists, and known for his paintings of horses and hunting scenes.Illustrated with numerous plates, including seven full colour reproductions of Ferneley's paintings. Collated, complete.The discovery of Ferneley's account book prompted the production of this work, and several of his entries are reproduced, including information on his earnings from a large number of paintings and sketches.With the bookplate of Christian Simonds to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With discolouration to back strip. Small splits to cloth to centre of rear joint and head of front joint, not affecting binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Contemporary illustrated bookplate and author's signature to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. John Ferneley (illustrator). signed by author. book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1931 Edition de Luxe on handmade paper with an original drawing by the Ferneleys inserted, illustrated, half title, cloth, dust jacket creased and torn tape repaired. From The Wakely Collection - The property of the late Dr Peter Wakely, his late to first blank page. Book is in very good condition, bright and clean tanne dedge paper, foxing to end papers. Dust Jacket poor with tae repairs protected in platstic, creases and tears to edges. Published by Edgar Backus, Leicester. Inv U5A6. …

Tall hardback, approx 10 x 7.5 inches. Halfbound fie binding with brown morocco leather to spine and olive grey cloth to boards. Gilt fox vignette to front, with gilt lettering and designs to spine. Top page edges gilt. Plain endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to leather on ends of spine else cover clean and smart. Some light foxing to endpapers and prelims, else pages clean and tight. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 292pp. Map on rear endpaper. Illustrated with 40 full-page plates by Charles Simpson, including 25 in colour (grey paper plates) and many smaller illustrations within text.…