Sets John (16 results)

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, blind tooling to the front panel. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains 320 printed pages of text with 163 monochrome diagrams and 63 photographic plates throughout. Mottling to the front cover, softened spine ends, age darkened closed page edges and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. RADIO [Wireless Telephony].

Hard back binding in publisher's original brick red cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 7'' x 4½''. Contains [xii] 164 printed pages of text with monochrome frontispiece, ornate chapter capital letters. Tanning to the page edges. Very Good condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 10 other books by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1850771855 STAGE & THEATRE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. 1st Edition. Grey cloth with yellow and red lettering on black panel to fr. and sp. virtually pristine. xi + 702, numerous graphs and tables numbered by chapter.; prev. owner's sig. top fr. end-paper, thin line of browning on fr. pastedown beside gutter, plus bookseller's sm. label, otherwise internally clean, tight and unmarked. Unclipped jacket has a number of edge-nicks and rubbings, generally clean but back hasa small faint cup-ring and a few other minor marks, will addprotective sleeve when ordered. Semms to be very scarce especially with jacket. 15 cm x 23 cm.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep navy and creamy white paper covered boards. 8vo. 9'' x 6½''. Contains 48 pp with 12 colour plates and 28 monochrome illustrations throughout. Spotting to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with shallow rubs to the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BRITAIN IN PICTURES.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue and white decorated paper covered boards. Small 8vo. 7ĵ'' x 5''. Contains 35 pp with 16 tinted illustrations in the text followed by 16 full-page colour plates. Spotting and two ink messages to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book, in Very Good dust wrapper with small rubs to the spine ends and corners, spine slightly age darkened, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. KING PENGUIN (Series).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue and white decorated paper covered boards. Small 8vo. 7ĵ'' x 5''. Contains 35 pp with 16 tinted illustrations in the text followed by 16 full-page colour plates. Spotting to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book, in Very Good dust wrapper with small rubs to the spine ends and corners, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. KING PENGUIN (Series).

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original blue and white decorated paper covered boards. Small 8vo. 7ĵ'' x 5''. Contains 35 pp with 16 tinted illustrations in the text followed by 16 full-page colour plates. Ink message dated 1951 and spotting to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book, in Very Good dust wrapper with small chip to the top of the spine, not price clipped, 3/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. KING PENGUIN (Series).

Farbige Kunstpostkarte (Benjamin Britten memorial window, Aldeburgh Suffolk, 1979) rückseitig in schwarzer Tinte eigenhändig signiert.

First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 12'' x 9ĵ''. Contains 144 pp with artist's works and archive photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Triptych folding double-sided flyer for the exhibition loosely inserted. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0856675342 ART [British].

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red and grey cloth boards illustrated by Piper stamped in red. 8vo. 10'' x 6ĵ''. One of an edition of 900 copies. Contains 91pp printed pages of text with portrait photograph to John Piper and monochrome illustrations throughout. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0903912090 ART [British].

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original brick red buckram covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, square gilt vignette to the front cover, top edge gilt. Quarto 10'' x 8''. Hand written number 346 of 1500 Limited Edition copies on ordinary paper. Contains [xvi] 351 printed pages of text with tissue-guarded colour portrait frontispiece of Irving as Hamlet from a painting by Edward Long, 120 further illustrations including 1 tissue-guarded colour portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Lambeth. Neatly repaired cracking of the cloth to the front gutter, the end papers are not cracked, light foxing to the end papers and in Very Good condition. From the private library of Andrew Leigh, General Manager of The Old Vic, London, and SIGNED by him to the front free end paper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STAGE & THEATRE.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original quarter venetian red cloth, colour printed sides to the book, gilt title stamped lettering to the spine. 4to. 12½'' x 9''. Hand written number 288 of 384 Limited Edition copies SIGNED by 'Hugh Fowler-Wright'. Contains 176 printed pages with 250 illustrations throughout, mostly in colour. In Fine unused condition, acetate protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9780955834325 ART [British].

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original claret cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, claret end papers. 4to. 10½'' x 8ĵ''. Contains 224 printed pages of text with monochrome works throughout. Fine condition book in in very near Fine condition dust wrapper with light dust spotting to the tops of the inner flaps. Neatly taped on the rear side to the front free end paper is a folding colour Christmas Card 9'' x 4'', being a reproduction of the original drawing by John Piper for the tapestry, woven by The Edinburgh Tapestry Company in 1975, for the entrance hall of Sedgwick Forbes House. The design is based on five of the old gates to the City of London, the appearance of which is known from engravings. SIGNED 'John and Myfanwy Piper' (artists second wife), Sedgwick Forbes House, 33 Aldgate High Street, London. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0436565900 ART [British].

Two pages, 8vo, very good condition. Text: "Thanks you for your letter. I've no idea what paper you saw that reported the councillor's dislike of my sketches - actually, at the meeting only one man expressed some demur about them, and (poor man) he was defeated by the otherwise general approval of the committee, which decided to go ahead with the scheme I proposed. I am doing the final designs now, and weaving will start in the autumn. We go off to Italy shortly, and will be back in early October, so it you care to pay us a visit in later October, or any time after, we would be pleased to see you." Note: A letter form Elisabeth Frink from the same source as this is addressed to "Mr. O.E. Roberts" of Budleigh Salterton. She mentions a sculpture he is working on. And sculptures of hers he wants to buy.

220 x 125 mm. (9 5/8 x 9 3/4"). Eight volumes. HANDSOME DEEP BURGUNDY MOROCCO by the Riverside Press (ink stamp on versos of flyleaves), covers with double gilt-ruled panel with gilt flowers and swirling vines at each corner, raised bands, gilt-ruled compartments tooled in gilt and with gilt lettering, FULL MOSS-GREEN MOROCCO DOUBLURES framed in burgundy morocco, each corner with gilt floral decorations, gilt-turn-ins with repeating flower tool, green silk endleaves, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, and ALMOST ENTIRELY UNOPENED. Each volume with five portraits (including frontispieces) as called for, all with original tissue guards, an additional engraved title page tipped-on to a larger leaf, and title page vignette. A Large Paper Copy. EACH VOLUME CONTAINING AN INSERTED LETTER OR DOCUMENT SIGNED BY AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN STATESMAN, INCLUDING THREE U.S. PRESIDENTS (see below). Half the spines very lightly sunned, front joint of first volume just beginning to show wear, volume II with hinge open after front free endpapers, other very minor imperfections, but a handsome set in unsurprisingly fine condition, with almost none of its leaves opened. One of the documents with a repair along the fold, a couple with stains and small tears, but all legible and in excellent condition overall. This is a beautifully bound, virtually untouched copy of a limited edition printed on large paper, with biographies of six important American statesmen, including Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley, John Sherman, Thomas B. Reed, John Hay, and James B. Blaine, with extra content that includes a signed document or letter by each of these famous men. Edited by the American historian John T. Morse (1840-1937), the "American Statesmen" was produced in two series: the first series consisted of 32 volumes on statesmen from the Revolutionary Era to the Civil War Period; and the second series consisted of eight volumes on men who mainly rose to prominence after the Civil War (though most either served or were involved with that conflict in some way). The present set consists of the second series, and is one of a limited number of Large Paper Copies. According to Sotheby's, "Only a few sets (probably five or [fewer]) of this edition were bound in morocco and contained original documents, of which many were broken up, the letters and documents removed and sold separately." Fortunately, our set has retained its original documents, which add greatly to the value and prestige of this work. Perhaps the most significant piece here is a letter on "Armies of the United States" letterhead written in the hand of and signed by ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-85) as Commanding General of the U. S. Armies. It is addressed to Brigadier General William Hoffman, who had served as Commissary-General of Prisoners throughout much of the Civil War and is dated 27 March 1865--just weeks before Robert E. Lee would surrender at Appomattox. The letter contains Grant's instructions to step down the exchange of prisoners as the end of the war drew closer: "I presume a large number of our prisoners are yet to arrive from Wilmington and also from the Miss[issippi] river. You may however discontinue the deliveries of rebel prisoners except as part of the Steamer New York can bring them. Discharge all the other vessels engaged in the business." The other autograph material includes: a partly printed document completed and signed by WILLIAM McKINLEY (1843-1901) dated 30 May 1870 and indicting a certain Andrew State for "Keeping Rooms of Public Resort for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors"; an ALS by JOHN SHERMAN (1823-1900) dated 24 December 1864 and addressed to William P. Fessenden, discussing a tax on whiskey; an ALS by JAMES BLAINE (1830-93) dated 27 November 1868; an ALS by THOMAS B. REED (1839-1902) dated 10 December 1887; an ALS by JOHN HAY (1838-1905) dated 25 July 1904, concerning Theodore Roosevelt's upcoming presidential election and the "almost unfeasible" suggestion that he would not gain New York's electoral votes; an ALS by GROVER CLEVELAND (1837-1908) dated 7 December 1897, declining an invitation to lecture; and an ALS by GEORGE B. McCLELLAN (1826-85) dated 30 October 1867 from London. Examples of the limited deluxe sets such as the present one are uncommon on the market, and ours is a very desirable example inside and out. Second Series. Limited Large Paper Edition. No. 148 OF 500 COPIES.

257 x 175 mm. (10 1/8 x 7"). Five volumes. HANDSOME 19TH CENTURY BROWN MOROCCO, covers with gilt Greek key roll border, raised bands, compartments with gilt rules, central floral ornaments, and gilt lettering, gilt turn-ins, all edges gilt. Volumes III-V each with frontispiece plus a total of 84 steel-engraved plates (a few in color), eight wood-engraved plates, and several wood-engraved illustrations in the text by the author, J. M. W. Turner, and others. A touch of rubbing to extremities, spines slightly sunned, covers with a few negligible blemishes, but the bindings very well preserved with only minor signs of wear; isolated light foxing to perhaps a score of leaves in total (mostly confined to upper margins and only once touching a plate), a few instances of faint thumbing, but the contents clean and fresh, without the pervasive foxing and browning that often plague this work. AN ATTRACTIVE SET. This pleasing set is the first major work by John Ruskin (1819-1900), a pre-eminent figure in literary non-fiction whose theories on the interconnection of art and life continue to have influence today. Ruskin begins "Modern Painters" with a defense of the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) against critics who claimed his work was "unlike nature." In the words of art historian George Landow, the author then goes on to "explain the nature of beauty and demonstrate its importance in human life." In Ruskin's view, says Landow, "all beauty, if properly regarded, is theophany, the revelation of God." Tolstoy said that in all of his writings, Ruskin was "one of those rare men who think with their hearts, and so he thought and said not only what he himself had seen and felt, but what everyone will think and say in the future." In "The Social History of Art," Arnold Hauser proclaims that "there has never been such a clear awareness of the organic relationship between art and life . . . since Ruskin." He describes Ruskin as "the first person in England to emphasize the fact that art is a public concern and that no nation can neglect it without endangering its social existence." And he says that our author was "the first to proclaim the gospel that art is not the privilege of artists, connoisseurs and the educated classes, but is part of every man's inheritance and estate." The numerous plates here--most of which were done either by Ruskin himself or by Turner, the artist he championed--run the gamut from sketches, fully realized landscapes, and studies of leaves, branches, or clouds, and they complement this important text beautifully. Sets of this work are frequently made up of mixed editions, as here, but are often found foxed and browned due to the paper stock. Our copy is mercifully clean, bright, and in an excellent state of preservation both inside and out. Seventh Edition of volume I; Fifth Edition of volume II; Second Edition of volumes III and IV; FIRST EDITION of volume V.