Sidney Callowhill (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated by Sidney T. Callowhill (illustrator). 148 p. 21 cm. Bound in grey-cloth over boards. Worn through at the corners. Some rippling to the cloth and soil to the boards. Front hinge is split but holding by the spine mull. Lacks front free endpaper. Previous owner's name and address on front pastedown and rear free endpapers. Inside page have occasional soil to their margins. One colour plate is missing. A few plates are detached and laid in. Bird stories for children, issued with sixteen plates (eight in colour) but one colour plate is missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sidney T. Callowhill (illustrator). 1st. 1st printing; green c w/pictorial inset on front; gilt titles;; ;moderate wear at extremities, and scratching to cover illustration; ower's name; 148 clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. James & Sidney Callowhill; Alois Lunzer; F. Schuyler Mathews (illustrator). 1st Edition. Rose pink and yellow covers have blind tooling, gilt stamping and inlaid title label. Boards show some smudges, staining, warping, edgewear. Corners are worn, with exposed board. See photos. Spine has sunned ends, chipped and frayed. Binding is secure. Patterned end papers/ pastedowns show little sign of age or wear. Frontispiece, "Princess Golden Flower," is present and has intact tissue guard. Water staining at foot edge, tissue guard is chipped. See photos. Ex-library book, stamped "Reed and Barton" on half-title page. Illustrations, fifteen chromolithographed plates, are bright and clear. Most plates have their tissue guards, some plates show water staining to lower edge. See photos. Interior exhibits a little marginal toning, some water damage to lower corner of introductory pages. See photos. Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. Text block edges have All Edges Gilt. DJ of paper backed rose pink cloth has inked title on front, black bands and title in red on spine. DJ has some edgewear, chipped corners, bumping along head and foot, staining and exposure, a library stamp, some writing. See photos.** PS2025.1216** Unpaginated. 9.75 x 11.75 inches** Rose pink cloth and yellow india silk over beveled boards, with embossed and gilt-stamped illustrative design. Title label, gilt and white, is laid on. Dust jacket, as issued, is paper backed rose pink cloth with inked title. Eighteen poems with artistic borders and fifteen chromolithographs of chrysanthemum cultivars are printed one-side on heavy coated stock. Interior is Very Good, with some water staining to lower edge. Boards show some bowing, heavy edgewear to foot, staining, with condition Good. Jacket is stained and discolored, with wear at all edges.** A fin-de-siècle tribute in poetry and painting to the chrysanthemum. Verses by Edith M. Thomas, Richard Henry Stoddard, Alice Ward Bailey, Celia Thaxter, Kate Upson Clarke, Louis Carroll, Margaret Deland, Robert Browning, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. The poems have decorative borders by F. Schuyler Mathews. Full-page plates show reproductions of watercolor studies from nature of chrysanthemums by James and Sidney Callowhill, Alois Lunzer, and F. Schuyler Mathews.** "Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. Seller Inventory #010384"**.

Cloth. Condition: Good+. Sidney T. Callowhill (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st edition, 1916. A Good+ copy. 8vo., 148 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with titles in gilt, tipped on illustration on front cover. Spine is faded, tips and edges rubbed through in areas. Overall light wear and soiling to cloth. Occasional light foxing, text appears unmarked.

1890. (4to) Very good in near fine dust jacket. Bound in rose cloth and yellow india silk with a stunning design in gilt and colors, and in a near fine rose cloth covered dust jacket. Textured gilt patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, printed one-side on heavy coated stock (excepting a few preliminary pages), 18 poems with artistic borders and 15 chromolithographs. The front inner hinge has been repaired, one tissueguard is wrinkled and has a corner tear, the bottom corner of the front cover has a small bump and the cloth dust jacket is unevenly faded. The book presents as near fine. Also included is the publisher's 4-page brochure for fine art books for the 1890-91 season. Illustrations by James Callowhill, Sidney Callowhill, Alois Lunzer & F. Schuyler Mathews. . Suitable as a gift. (Poetry, Botanical Illustration, Chrysanthemums, Flowers).