Plates Middleton (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. BERMUDA'S OLDEST INHABITANTS OR TALES OF PLANT LIFE BY L. HUTCHINGS SMITH 1950. On offer here a nice copy albeit in a battered dust jacket of: "Bermuda's Oldest InhabitantsTales of Plant Life" by Louisa Hutchings Smith with nine coloured illustrations by May Middleton. This small-sized and relatively thin hard cover book (71/2 x 10 inches 80 pages) was published by J. Salmon Ltd. of Sevenoaks England dated 1950 and the Third Edition (so stated). Each of the nine illustrations has a captioned tissue-guard protecting it. The covers are bound in a light green cloth with gilt titles and decorations on the front. Condition: This book is in very good condition. I cannot say the same for the dust jacket which has a big chunk missing from the front cover and small chips on the rear. The hard covers are a bit dust-dulled and the gilt titles slightly tarnished. There is a tiny white blemish on the front cover. Inside the book is unmarked but there is some incipient foxing on both the front and rear endpapers and on one or two of the tissue-guards which seem to be hydroscopic. Happily, the foxing does not really get into the book or affect the text or plate pages. The interior pages and plates are clean and bright and very handsome. Both hinges are intact, and the binding is tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. New. Many many plates (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Portfolio. 1st Edition. (32) Pp. Booklet, Staple-Bound, Illustrated, In Card Covers. 27 Loose Plates. In Portfolio With $7.50 Price. Booklet And Plates Fine, Portfolio Dusty And With Many Small Chips Right Along Fore Edge And Upper Folds. The American Social Artist William Gropper's Copy Although Not Marked As Such; He Furnished One Of The Tributes In The Booklet. 27 Plates (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 1st UK Edition. Dustjacket chipped with short tears, light soil. Small bookshop sticker base of front pastedown.; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; B&W maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pages; Frederick John Dealtry Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard (22 January 1858 â" 11 April 1945) had a varied and distinguished career as a soldier, explorer and colonial administrator. He is best known for his work in Nigeria, where "he raised the West Africa Frontier Force, curbed the power of the Emirs of the north and in the years that followed laid the foundations for good government." He served as; Governor-General of Nigeria, Governor of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate, Governor of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate, 14th Governor of Hong Kong, High Commissioner of the Northern Nigeria Protectorate (chronologically in reverse order). Illustrated by B&W Plates (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Three Of Four Volumes, Issued 1779-1784. (X), 520, With 13 Plates; (Iv), 512, With 13 Plates; (Iv), 512 Pp. With 12 Plates. Volume I (1779), Volume Ii (1780), And Volume Iii (1784). Vols. I And Ii In Matching Old Calf, Morocco Spine Labels, Worn And Dried But Intact, Vol I Lacking Rear Endpapers And Rear Board; Volume Iii In Quarter Calf, Five Compartments, Rebacked With Original Spine Laid Down, Very Worn, Front Cover And Prelims Through Contents Page Are Detached, But All Volumes Complete. Many Portrait Plates By Thomas Trotter, Engraved After Original Paintings And, In A Few Cases, Original Medallions. Text Pages Clean And Complete, Ownership Signatures Of American Rev. James J. Woolsey In Vols I And Ii, With Ownership Signature Of Elizabeth Taylor Dated 1799; Bookplate Of Esther Fuller Maitland [Later The Wife Of Ridley Herschell, Father Of Lord Herschell] In Volume Iii; Huntington Library Duplicate Stamps On Rear Endpapers. Short Biographies, Two To Six Pages, Good Minute Biographies Of Their Lives And Achievements. Very Scarce: Worldcat Only Locates A Few Institutional Holdings, Most Consisting Of Only Partial Sets. Sold Only As A Group (I Would Like To Buy A Volume Iv With Clean, Undamaged Pages). International Shipping By Usps Insured Prority Or Express Mail, At Cost.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First American Edition. 661 Pp. First Printing, 1953, New York (Stated). In A Deluxe Black Full Morocco Binding Gilt, Red Morocco Spine Label, Elaborate Gilt Turns, Marbled Endpapers, All Edges Gilt. Also With A Christmas Card From Dora And Bernard Middleton, And His Calligraphic Note Apologizing For A Delay In Sending This Book. Per Wikipedia, Bernard Chester Middleton Mbe ( 1924 - 2019) Was A Preeminent British Restoration Bookbinder. He Was Regarded As One Of The Foremost Book Craftsmen And Trade Historians Of Modern Times, Lecturing And Teaching In Europe (Belgium, Switzerland, And The Netherlands) And The Americas (Brazil, The United States, And Venezuela). He Authored Two Major Works, A History Of English Craft Bookbinding Technique (1963) And The Restoration Of Leather Bindings (1972), Which Became Essential Reading For Professional Bookbinders, Scholars And Collectors. In The Trade, He Was Known As "The Great Man". He Was Elected A Fellow Of The Royal Society Of Arts In 1951 And, In 1986, Was Awarded An Mbe For Services To Bookbinding. His Gold-Tooled Bindings May Be Seen In The British Library, The Victoria And Albert Museum, The Royal Library, Windsor, And The Wormsley Library, And In Other Major Libraries Worldwide. Color Plates And B/W Illustrations (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Slipcase. Reprint. Xv, 587 Pp. A 1948 Reprint Of The Classic Collection Of Early English Poetry, 6 1/4" X 3 7/8" . In A Deluxe"Yellow Goatskin" Binding, "Gilt-Edges, Black Suede Doublures. Gold Tooled With Black Onlays", Marbled Free Endpapers, All Edges Gilt, Also With His Slipcase With Matching Goat Open Edges. Also With Middleton's Handwritten 1996 Invoice For 455 Pounds. Per Wikipedia, Bernard Chester Middleton Mbe ( 1924 - 2019) Was A Preeminent British Restoration Bookbinder. He Was Regarded As One Of The Foremost Book Craftsmen And Trade Historians Of Modern Times, Lecturing And Teaching In Europe (Belgium, Switzerland, And The Netherlands) And The Americas (Brazil, The United States, And Venezuela). He Authored Two Major Works, A History Of English Craft Bookbinding Technique (1963) And The Restoration Of Leather Bindings (1972), Which Became Essential Reading For Professional Bookbinders, Scholars And Collectors. In The Trade, He Was Known As "The Great Man". He Was Elected A Fellow Of The Royal Society Of Arts In 1951 And, In 1986, Was Awarded An Mbe For Services To Bookbinding. His Gold-Tooled Bindings May Be Seen In The British Library, The Victoria And Albert Museum, The Royal Library, Windsor, And The Wormsley Library, And In Other Major Libraries Worldwide. 18 Tipped-In Color Plates (illustrator).…