Susannah Whatman (3 results)
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Published by Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, Cambridge 1952
- Hardcover
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, , United KingdomProvan Books
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, for presentation to friends of the Printer at Christmas 1952, in an edition of 250 copies, 8 preliminary pages, 40 pages (printed on "Whatman" paper from Messrs W & R Balston), frontispiece portrait plate (with tissue guard)…, decorations by Lawrence Josset, very good condition in cloth binding (corners of boards and top and bottom of spine slightly rubbed, top edge of book spotted, text in fine, clean condition) with poor clear paper wrapper (browned, creased and torn with loss at the top of the wrapper spine). Lawrence Josset (illustrator).
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Fokas Holthuis, Den Haag, , NetherlandsFokas Holthuis
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Cambridge, University Press, (1952). Original cloth. viii, 40 p. With engravings by Lawrence Josset. Title page engraved by H.K. Wolfenden. Printed in 250 copies on special Whatman paper. First edition. Cover a bit worn and discolored, edges of pages browned. Nice typographical bookplate 'gb'. Attractive book about the tasks of…an 18th century housewife, in this case the wife of paper maker James Whatman II, whose father was the inventor (and most important producer) of wove paper. The book was assembled in 1776-1787. Humorous, refined engravings. The scanned picture illustrates the 'unnecessary temptations of inferior servants' when they find large joints of meat unnattended.
Published by 8vo, pp.viii,40, Cambridge: For the Friends of the University Printer, 1952. 1952
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, , United KingdomCollinge & Clark
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. One of 250 copies on special Whatman hand-made paper. Engraved title-page by H.K.Wolfenden, the monogram thereon being copied from a James Whatman watermark of 1781. Collotype portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with 14 etchings by Lawrence Josset. Dark grey cloth with maroon label ti…tled in gilt on the front, spine gilt. A near fine copy.
