Romney John, First Edition (16 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Seventh Edition. Gloss boards have light wear. Pages are clean, text has a small amount of highlighting, binding is sound. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4 1/2" X 5"". Trimmed To Small Margins, Removing Publisher's Information At Bottom. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. John Romney (June 1785 - 1 February 1863) Was An English Artist In Printmaking And Watercolor Who Lived And Worked In London And Chester. Much Of His Work Consisted Of Reproductions Of The Work Of Other Artists, But He Produced Some Original Prints, Paintings And Drawings. Like The Great Majority Of Contemporary Printmakers He Worked In Both Engraving And Etching, Often On The Same Plate, And Descriptions Of His Prints As Being In One Or The Other Technique Should Be Taken Loosely. His Best Known Original Prints Are Series Of Views Of The Chester Area And His Part Of One On The Antiquities In The British Museum. He Was Apparently Not Related To The Famous Portraitist George Romney (1734-1802).

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4 1/8" X2 7/8". Old Tape And Paper Repairs On Verso. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. John Romney (June 1785 - 1 February 1863) Was An English Artist In Printmaking And Watercolour Who Lived And Worked In London And Chester. Much Of His Work Consisted Of Reproductions Of The Work Of Other Artists, But He Produced Some Original Prints, Paintings And Drawings. Like The Great Majority Of Contemporary Printmakers He Worked In Both Engraving And Etching, Often On The Same Plate, And Descriptions Of His Prints As Being In One Or The Other Technique Should Be Taken Loosely. His Best Known Original Prints Are Series Of Views Of The Chester Area And His Part Of One On The Antiquities In The British Museum. He Was Apparently Not Related To The Famous Portraitist George Romney (1734-1802).

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4 9/16 X 3 5/8". Mounted On Card. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. John Romney (June 1785 - 1 February 1863) Was An English Artist In Printmaking And Watercolor Who Lived And Worked In London And Chester. Much Of His Work Consisted Of Reproductions Of The Work Of Other Artists, But He Produced Some Original Prints, Paintings And Drawings. Like The Great Majority Of Contemporary Printmakers He Worked In Both Engraving And Etching, Often On The Same Plate, And Descriptions Of His Prints As Being In One Or The Other Technique Should Be Taken Loosely. His Best Known Original Prints Are Series Of Views Of The Chester Area And His Part Of One On The Antiquities In The British Museum. He Was Apparently Not Related To The Famous Portraitist George Romney (1734-1802).

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 10X8 Cm. Trimmed To Edges, Removing Publisher's Information At Bottom. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. John Romney (June 1785 - 1 February 1863) Was An English Artist In Printmaking And Watercolor Who Lived And Worked In London And Chester. Much Of His Work Consisted Of Reproductions Of The Work Of Other Artists, But He Produced Some Original Prints, Paintings And Drawings. Like The Great Majority Of Contemporary Printmakers He Worked In Both Engraving And Etching, Often On The Same Plate, And Descriptions Of His Prints As Being In One Or The Other Technique Should Be Taken Loosely. His Best Known Original Prints Are Series Of Views Of The Chester Area And His Part Of One On The Antiquities In The British Museum. He Was Apparently Not Related To The Famous Portraitist George Romney (1734-1802).

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 4 1/8" X2 7/8". One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. John Romney (June 1785 - 1 February 1863) Was An English Artist In Printmaking And Watercolour Who Lived And Worked In London And Chester. Much Of His Work Consisted Of Reproductions Of The Work Of Other Artists, But He Produced Some Original Prints, Paintings And Drawings. Like The Great Majority Of Contemporary Printmakers He Worked In Both Engraving And Etching, Often On The Same Plate, And Descriptions Of His Prints As Being In One Or The Other Technique Should Be Taken Loosely. His Best Known Original Prints Are Series Of Views Of The Chester Area And His Part Of One On The Antiquities In The British Museum. He Was Apparently Not Related To The Famous Portraitist George Romney (1734-1802).

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 6 1/8" X 7". One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. John Romney (June 1785 - 1 February 1863) Was An English Artist In Printmaking And Watercolor Who Lived And Worked In London And Chester. Much Of His Work Consisted Of Reproductions Of The Work Of Other Artists, But He Produced Some Original Prints, Paintings And Drawings. Like The Great Majority Of Contemporary Printmakers He Worked In Both Engraving And Etching, Often On The Same Plate, And Descriptions Of His Prints As Being In One Or The Other Technique Should Be Taken Loosely. His Best Known Original Prints Are Series Of Views Of The Chester Area And His Part Of One On The Antiquities In The British Museum. He Was Apparently Not Related To The Famous Portraitist George Romney (1734-1802).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [1st edition, 1st printing] 160 pp. ; illustrations (some in color), maps ; 20 x 26 cm. ; ISBN: 1855852748; 9781855852747 ; LC: DA87.1.N4; Dewey: 359.03092; 923.5 ; OCLC: 36292054 ; black cloth with gold lettering and color illustrated dustjacket ; artwork featured, by Lemuel Abbott, Giacomo Guardi, J P Knight, P.-J. de Loutherbourg, Thomas Rowlandson, J. Fairburn, F G Fuger, J C Stadler, William Beechey, M E Cotman, Thomas Bardwell, Dominic Serres, Samuel Buck, Nathaniel Buck, Edward Orme, Gi lbert Stuart, Richard Westall, John Francis Rigaud, John Augustus Atkinson, Benjamin West, John Downman, Daniel Orme, Nicholas Pocock, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Samuel Shelley, David Allan, James Gillray, George Romney, Vigee Lebrun, John Thomas Serres , Leonardo Guzzardi, Johann Heinrich Schmidt, Isaac Cruikshank, Richard Cosway, and Thomas Baxter ; VG/VG. Book.

SOFTCOVER. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Large landscape 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers, 30pp on stiff art paper, 32 items all fully described and illustrated in colour. PLUS Price list loosely inserted . [CONDITION: NEW unread and unmarked copy ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Blue Paper Boards portrait frontispiece. Some spotting (mostly to first and last few leaves), rubbed and worn with some loss.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + DJ. 1st Edition. Xiv, 237 Pp. Violet Cloth Printed In Black. The Ninth Publication Of The Six Cultures Project, "The Most Important To Date". First Printing. Fine In A Very Good + Dj (Minute Losses Top Of Spine Edge, Touch Of Rubbing, 3/16" Closed Tear Bottom Of Front Panel,1/8" Closed Tear Top Rear Flap Fold).

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. George Romney (illustrator). 1st Edition. Published May 20th 1789 this beautiful and dark early strike mezzotint engraved and published by John Jones after Sir George Romney. some light stains and age spotting to lower left not seen on the print, noticed in the border area. Measures. 22 x 15 inches edge to edge and 17.5 x 13 inches image. (43 x 32 cm). **Historical NOTE William Pitt, the Younger (28 May 1759 - 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He became the youngest Prime Minister in 1783 at the age of 24. Prime Minister twice.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. (10), (8), (18), (30) pages + engraved plate of air-pump. 295x230mm. Extracted from the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. *The first three papers are by Thomas Romney Robinson, Professor of Astronomy at Armagh. The fourth paper is by John Brinkley, President of the Royal Irish Academy, and has an appendix with tabular observations and computations.* Very good, without any damage, library stamps, inscriptions or other markings.

Wraps. Condition: Good +. Gill, Eric and Beedham, R. John (illustrator). First and Limited Edition. One of 240 copies, duodecimo size, 126 pp. "Woodwork" contains twenty-one wood engravings of tools by the inimitable Eric Gill (1882-1940); a highly regarded printmaker, sculptor, and typographer (as well as a complicated man), Gill provided illustrations for numerous fine press publications by the Golden Cockerel Press and the Saint Dominic's Press, as well as with Pepler under the imprint of the St. Dominic's Press. An informative look at the art of carpentry by craftsman-woodworker Arthur Romney Green (1872-1945), who, like Gill and Pepler, was influenced by William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. Although the book is stated as "Volume I", no further volumes were issued. ___DESCRIPTION: Brown paper wraps, black lettering on the front wrap, fore- and bottom edges uncut, title page with black-and-white wood engraving, a total of thirty-one wood engravings in the text throughout: twenty-one wood engravings of carpentry tools by Eric Gill, ten wood engravings by R. John Beedham; Caslon O. F. type, Batchelor handmade paper, duodecimo size (7.75" by 5"), pagination: [i-iv] v-xvi [1] 2-110, one of 450 copies, this number 161. ___CITATION: Better than good, with clean wraps, a strong, square text block, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; overall minor edgewear to the wraps, some loss to the paper at the spine exposing parts of the gatherings (however, text block still solid), small loss to the bottom fore-edge corner of the title page. ___CITATIONS: Gill no. 269; Taylor and Sewell, no. A31. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Hardcover. Octavo, Three volumes continuously paged (lx, 1003 pages). In Good condition. Spines are blue with gold print. Boards have mitred edges, gilt heraldry on front panel. Light wear to spine caps and corners, light shelf wear. Text blocks have gilt top edge. Spotting to endpapers. Illustrated: b&w frontispiece in each volume, 2 additional plates in first volume. [Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates]. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-volume Section. 1390677. FP New Rockville Stock. First complete edition; Limited edition 667/900.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Very good condition, first edition, Volume I, II and III complete. This edition is limited to nine hundred copies of which this is number 733. Includes five plates, and newspaper clipping laid in. Blue cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering to spines and gilt crests to fronts (no dust jackets). Page bock heads are gilt edged, faces and feet are rough cut. Spines are faded and sunned. Some minor rubbing and handling marks to boards, and corners are a little bumped. Page blocks are tanned. Inside pages all very clean and tightly bound. LW. Used.