Raphael Tuck Pub (2 results)
Published by Raphael Tuck
- Hardcover
Seller: G. L. Green Ltd, Radlett, , United KingdomG. L. Green Ltd
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Stiff Card Covers. Condition: Good. Presumed First Edition no date. gold cover with red and blue lettering on the front. It would seem this booklet ; colour portraits of the King and Royal Princes leaving Buckinham Palace, and 6 colour plates depicting the Trooping the Colour ceremony, all mounted on embossed goldish card w; inf…ormative text tipped in on the opposite side. comes with a box to protect it original but in poor condition royal blue in colour with the gold title and blue and red lettering. Booklet Good few marks to covers.
Published by Raphael Tuck, [1931-1936] 1931
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United KingdomIsland Books
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13 vols., 8vo., Mixed Editions, with coloured or sepia-toned frontispieces and very numerous sepia-toned plates, some light and occasional spotting; coloured cloth, upper boards lettered in gilt enclosing mounted coloured illustrations (not repeated in text), gilt backs, a very good, bright, clean and elegant run. Published in t…he early 1930s, Raphael Tuck's 'Cathedral Story' series provides accessible and easily-written accounts of the great English Cathedals and Minsters. The authors, always well-informed, were almost exclusively senior clergy of their respective institutions, and the plates are well-chosen and atmospheric. In particular, the cover watercolour illustrations are quite charming and the series as A whole has an attractive and elegant feel. This run comprises A.S. Duncan-Jones: Chichester Cathedral (1ed. 1933. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY), Horace Munroe: Southwark Cathedral (1ed. 1933), Margaret A. Babington: Canterbury Cathedral (2ed. 1934), Charles C. Bell: York Minster (1ed. 1931), E.G. Swain: Peterborough Cathedral (1ed. 1932), J.H. Srawley: Lincoln Minster (1ed. 1933), Arthur Huxley Thompson: Exeter Cathedral (1ed. 1933), Lawrence E. Tanner: Westminster Abbey (1ed. 1932), Richard H. Malden: Wells Cathedral (2ed. 1938), Charles C. Bell: Fountains Abbey (1ed. 1932), J.M.J. Fletcher: Salisbury Cathedral (1ed. 1933), E.G. Selwyn: Winchester Cathedral (1ed. 1934), Maurice H. Fitzgerald: Bristol Cathedral (1ed. 1936). GOOD RUNS IN THIS CONDITION ARE SCARCE.
