Skelton Compiler (6 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Intended as a revision of Chubb's standard bibliography, this became a complete re-write, first published in five parts. Though intended to extend to 1850, Skelton died before completing the work. Cartographer David Woodward's copy, with his name neatly rubberstamped on the free endsheet, and a prospectus for the book taped in opposite. Hardcover, as pictured. General wear, corners bumped, jacket missing, minor fading to spine; crease to first few leaves. Text clean; vii, blank, 262 pages, indexes, plates - some folding. Size: Large Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A beautiful clean crisp hardcover copy in very good condition, former owners library plate on front paste down, else fine. DJ in very good condition with faint age toning along edges, now in protective mylar cover.

4to, viii,262pp., frontis., 40 plates, facsimiles, orig. cloth.

9" x 5.75", pictorial card covers, perfect bound, pp i - xiv, 1 - 401, illustrated by b & w photographs, as-new condition except for ownership details on ffep.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. One of 600 copies (of a total of 1000) produced for the Book Club. Compiled by Christopher Skelton with an introduction by Michael Renton and an afterword by Albert Sperisen. Fully illustrated with an index of names. Gilt-lettered red cloth in printed dust jacket.Light edgewear to top of jacket. A very fine copy. Reproduces all fifty-three bookplates engraved by Eric Gill in their actual size. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Portrait frontispiece and 993 engravings, some reproduced in black and red. Green cloth with gilt spine titling, upper board stamped with nudes in blind. Pictorial dust-jacket titled in red. A near fine copy. Based upon the limited edition `The Engravings of Eric Gill' published by Christopher Skelton in 1983.