Robert Symonds (120 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. San Diego: A Harvest Original / Harcourt Brace & Company 1999. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 015600559X "Gathering some of the best travel writing ever collected about the enchanted Emerald Isle". 293+ pages, frontispiece map. National Geographic Ireland and Northern Ireland: A Visitor's Guide color map folded and laid in. Near fine with ight edge wear. clph.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Antique Furniture of the Walnut Period. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Rough cut outer and lower edges of text. Browning and wear on all edges of text. Cover slightly worn on facing, corners, ends of spine and along spine. Else good. 93 pp.

Hardcover, no dust jacket. Worn cover, ex-library, heavy foxing, tender hinges. 93 pp.

1st Edition. Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Some wear around the spine cover edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 79, [1] pages, 72 pages of plates: illustrations; 19 cm. Subjects: Clocks and watches Great Britain. Clock and watch making Great Britain. Clock and watch making. Clocks and watches. Clocks and watches England. Great Britain. Clocks and watches British Isles. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Some wear around the spine cover edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 79, [1] pages, 72 pages of plates: illustrations; 19 cm. Notes: Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.Includes bibliographical references (page 80).Subjects: Clocks and watches Great Britain.Clock and watch making Great Britain. Clock and watch making. Clocks and watches. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

First Edition. Poor copy in illustrated paper-covered boards. Spine bands worn with some loss. Panel edges rubbed and dulled as with age. Text remains in fine condition; clear without blemish. Series; The King Penguin books ; 28. Physical description; 79, [1] pages, 72 pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. "Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis." "Set in Monotype Bembo." "Text pages printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh ; . plates made and printed by John Swain & Son [sic] Ltd., Barnet." Cover title : A book of English clocks. Plates are photographic reproductions. Revised edition published in 1950 -- Edwards, R. "So much admired". 1988. Series title also on title page ; not on cover. Includes bibliographical references (page 80). Subjects; Clock and watch making Great Britain History. Clocks and watches Great Britain History. Clocks and watches Great Britain. Clock and watch making Great Britain. Great Britain. Clocks and watches British Isles. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; The King Penguin books ; 28. Physical description; 79, [1] pages, 72 pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. "Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis." "Set in Monotype Bembo." "Text pages printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh ; . plates made and printed by John Swain & Son [sic] Ltd., Barnet." Cover title : A book of English clocks. Plates are photographic reproductions. Revised edition published in 1950 -- Edwards, R. "So much admired". 1988. Series title also on title page ; not on cover. Includes bibliographical references (page 80). Subjects; Clock and watch making Great Britain History. Clocks and watches Great Britain History. Clocks and watches Great Britain. Clock and watch making Great Britain. Great Britain. Clocks and watches British Isles. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black and white illustrations. First edition. Occasional foxing throughout text block, else very good in red cloth with gilt lettering and design. No dust jacket. B00086Q51E.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Milwaukee (1926) . 93 pages, clothbound, no jacket, very good condition.

Second Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss and detached) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 132 pages : plates ; 29 cm. Notes; Originally published 1921. Subjects; Furniture England History. 3 Kg.

1st Edition. Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Some wear around the spine cover edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 79, [1] pages, 72 pages of plates: illustrations; 19 cm. Subjects: Clocks and watches Great Britain. Clock and watch making Great Britain. Clock and watch making. Clocks and watches. Clocks and watches England. Great Britain. Clocks and watches British Isles. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

1st edition. Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Some wear around the spine cover edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 79, [1] pages, 72 pages of plates: illustrations; 19 cm. Notes: Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis.Includes bibliographical references (page 80).Subjects: Clocks and watches Great Britain.Clock and watch making Great Britain. Clock and watch making. Clocks and watches. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: New.

1st edition. Thick large 8vo. 1011pp. B/w. portrait frontispiece and illustrations. Original gilt lettered green cloth with gilt device to upper board. US$12.

First Edition. Poor copy in illustrated paper-covered boards. Spine bands worn with some loss. Panel edges rubbed and dulled as with age. Text remains in fine condition; clear without blemish. Series; The King Penguin books ; 28. Physical description; 79, [1] pages, 72 pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. "Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis." "Set in Monotype Bembo." "Text pages printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh ; . plates made and printed by John Swain & Son [sic] Ltd., Barnet." Cover title : A book of English clocks. Plates are photographic reproductions. Revised edition published in 1950 -- Edwards, R. "So much admired". 1988. Series title also on title page ; not on cover. Includes bibliographical references (page 80). Subjects; Clock and watch making Great Britain History. Clocks and watches Great Britain History. Clocks and watches Great Britain. Clock and watch making Great Britain. Great Britain. Clocks and watches British Isles. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; The King Penguin books ; 28. Physical description; 79, [1] pages, 72 pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm. Notes; Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis. "Cover design by Clifford and Rosemary Ellis." "Set in Monotype Bembo." "Text pages printed by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh ; . plates made and printed by John Swain & Son [sic] Ltd., Barnet." Cover title : A book of English clocks. Plates are photographic reproductions. Revised edition published in 1950 -- Edwards, R. "So much admired". 1988. Series title also on title page ; not on cover. Includes bibliographical references (page 80). Subjects; Clock and watch making Great Britain History. Clocks and watches Great Britain History. Clocks and watches Great Britain. Clock and watch making Great Britain. Great Britain. Clocks and watches British Isles. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket after Chippendale (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in 1948, this is a second impression of 1950. Edge wear, chipping, creasing, short closed tears and some loss to top and bottom of largely black jacket and spine, folds rubbed, corners slightly bruised and rubbed, not price clipped (10s 6d), small previous owner's name to top ffep, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 80pp, illustrated. This book contains a vast array of illustrated designs coupled with descriptions, uses, and any other information of note. Invaluable to all Chippendale collectors. The editor and writer of the Preface Robert Wemyss Symonds (1889-1958), was a British architect, and "the pre-eminent 20th century scholar and authority on English furniture". His complicated love life, before he married respectably, included affairs with two women, the first of which produced children he never acknowledged, and the second with a woman who he discovered was already married and who was subsequently jailed for perjury in her divorce case.

Condition: New.

2nd edition. Near fine paper-covered, gilt-blocked copy in a good, torn (with some loss) acetate dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 269 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. Notes; Originally published 1929. Subjects; Furniture England History. Antique Collectors' Club. 1 Kg.

Second Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss and detached) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description; xii, 132 pages : plates ; 29 cm. Notes; Originally published 1921. Subjects; Furniture England History. 1 Kg.