Semple Miss (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Folio. Contemporary winered full morocco, spine richly gilt, covers gilt and blindtooled. A. e. g. Coloured vignette on title, 30 handcoloured plates. Small dampstaining to first two pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. none. Folio. Engraved title with hand-colored vignette and 30 plates engraved by W. Bartlett after drawings of the author, finely colored by hand. 3 ff. (incl. title), 30 pp. Contemporary half calf (spine-ends repaired, slightly rubbed). (Colas No. 2710, Lipperheide No. 958.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 30 pp. + 30 hand-colored aquatint plates. Hardcover, bound in red morocco over cloth, recased preserving original backstrip, endpapers renewed. Scattered small blemishes with partial ring stains on plate 26.

Full-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Miss Semple, W Bartlett (illustrator). 1st Edition. A very good copy in later full morocco binding with 30 hand coloured plates and accompanying text by Miss Semple. Dated from the publisher's note at the base of each plate - there is no date on the title page. The text provides a commentary to the plates and gives a sense of her journey around the Netherlands and how the plates came to be drawn. The full red morocco binding is probably late 20th century and mimics the design of the original publisher's cloth binding with a leather and gilt title label to the front board. The endpapers were replaced at the same time and have a tape reinforcement at the joints, which looks contemporary with the rebinding. The binding is in very good clean condition with some bumping to the top corners. Contents: half title with small ink signature to top; decorative title page with hand coloured vignette; and alternating text pages and full page plates. The text is in English and French. The half title has lost its top corner tip and has some small ink marks at the bottom. Plates and text and generally very clean and in very good condition. There is toning to page edges and the occasional light mark. The final plate is beginning to detach from the binding at the top and has some light nibbling to the edges.

Paper pastedown onto boards. Condition: Very Good. Folio. 30 hand-colored plates plus title page vignette. Title page gives 1817 as publication date, and plates are watermarked 1817, but front pastedown label gives date of 1819. 14.5 by 10.5 inches. 37 by 27 cm. With original publisher's boards and label. Rebacked with matching cloth. Boards are soiled and scuffed, with red surface paper rubbed off along edges and corners. Still attractive binding. Scattered light foxing and soiling within, but overall impression is of clean and fresh. One plate with tiny pinprick hole.

In-folio. 31pp + 29 plates (1 missing). Red morocco half-binding, signed Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London. Very beautifull aquatint plates, hand-coloured, after drawings from stature by Miss Semple. 1 plate missing. Text in English and French. Very good copy.

First Edition. With Thirty Fine Hand Colored Aquatint Plates Depicting the Costumes of The Netherlands SEMPLE, Miss, [illustrator]. The Costume of the Netherlands, displayed in thirty coloured engravings after drawings from nature, by Miss Semple, with descriptions in English and French. London: Ackermann's Repository of Arts, March 1st 1817. Folio. (13 7/8 x 10 1/8 inches; 352 x 257 mm.). [iv], [1]-30 pp. Hand-colored title-page vignette and thirty full-page hand-colored aquatints (including frontispiece). Plates watermarked J. Whatman 1816, text watermarked J. Whatman 1813. Occasional light marginal soiling, but still a wonderful example. Contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Neat early ink signature on front flyleaf. Small booksellers ticket of Henry Sotheran Ltd., on front paste-down. "The following Drawings, being correct representations of the Costumes of the Netherlands, (each subject having been sketched from Nature) may be found interesting at this time when British valour has made that part of the continent familiar to the Public." (Foreword). Bobins II, 430; Colas 2710; Hiler 793; Lipperheide 958, Prideaux 351; Not in Abbey.

London: Ackermann, 1817. In-folio: 27 x 36 cm, 2 ff., 30 pp., 30 pl. grav. Edition originale de ce recueil de costumes des Pays-Bas. Page de titre gravée par Bartlett. Ouvrage illustré de 30 aquatintes hors-texte en couleurs, imprimées par Ackermann d'après les dessins de Miss Semple et entièrement rehaussées à la main. Chaque planche est accompagnée de sa description en anglais et en français. Elégante reliure de l'époque en maroquin rouge à longs grains. Dos à 5 nerfs plats richement ornés, titre, dentelles et caissons dorés. Plats décorés d'arabesques dorées encadrées de dentelles à froid et de roulettes dorées. Roulettes intérieurs à motif de feuilles de vigne, gardes recouvertes de soie bleue. Tranches dorées. Ex-libris: Lord Farnham. Traces de frottement aux coiffes, aux gouttières, et aux coins. Gravures propres et fraîches. Ouvrage en très bel état luxueusement relié et bien complet de toutes les gravures. [English. London : Ackermann, 1817. Folio : 27 x 36 cm, 2 ff., 30 pp., 30 engr. col. pl. First edition. Title page engraved by Bartlett. Illustrated with 30 hand-colored inserts aquatints, printed by Ackermann after Miss Semple's drawings. Each plate has an English and a French description. Very elegant contemporary long grain red morocco binding. Flat bands on spine, with gilt title and panels. Large gilt arabesques on covers, framed with fillet rolls. Doublures rolled with gilt vine leaves. Blue silk endpapers. Gilt edges. Ex-libris: Lord Farnham. Hinges, headcaps and corners lightly rubbed. Engravings and paper clean. Very nice copy, luxuriously bound, complete with all color plates.].