Robert Venables Illustrations (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bound in blue buckram cloth blocked in gilt and black to the spine and to the front board. Decorated endpapers, xix, 361pp., map, colour illustrations, notes, works, index. Fine in like Slipcase.(BH) 3/2026. Robert Venables (illustrator).

2018. (Hardcover in slipcase) Fine, no dust jacket. 471pp. Olive green cloth with gilt and black lettering and decorations to the cover and spine in a fine green slipcase. Patterned endpapers, color illustrated frontispiece, tables, color illustrations, notes, abbreviations, index. "It is a normal morning in London, on Friday 16 July 1591. In the wide street known as Cheapside the people are about their business, going between the timber-covered market stalls. Traders are calling out, hoping to attract the attention of merchants' wives. Travellers and gentlemen are walking along the recently repaired pavements of the street" - from the Introduction. Time Period 16th Century & Elizabethan. Illustrations by Robert Venables. Locale: London--England. (History--England, Folio Society, History--England, Social History).…

Hardcover. pp. xviii, 306. 4to. Bright purple cloth binding and darker purple slipcase. Front board and spine decorated in bright silver and multicolours. Publisher's violet topstain. Decorated endpapers. Beautiful colour illustrations. Slight scuff to silver over spine, else near fine, in rubbed slipcase showing a bump to one corner and loss/damage to the surface layer of paper over multiple panels. Tim Stevens (illustrator).…