William Dibben (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No date, looks circa 1960. Fine hardback book in dark blue hardcovers. Hardware, household and bathroom plumbing catalogue. HEAVY! OVERSEAS SHIPPING EXTRA AT ACTUAL COST!

xx, 614pp inc illustrations, some in colour, with descriptions and prices. Folding colour chart of Stonite One Piece Fireplaces. Cloth, 28x22. Good solid copy. Cover lettering little rubbed, back cover marked and scuffed, minor bumping to foredge of pages, contents nice and bright, especially colour illustrations. Fold-out repaired. Complete builder's compendium. Thousands of illustrations including, for example, nice sections on leaded lights and fireplaces, with colour images.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small folio, xvi +708pp. Superbly illustrated throughout, many colour plates of fireplace suites, tiles, matsine and distemper paints. Mark maroon boards. VG. FREE POSTAGE IN THE UK.

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. Third Edition. Two Volumes. Third Edition from 1720. Volume I contains mainly verses by Alexander Pope: 'particularly' I Windsor Forest, II Essay on Criticism, III Rape of the Lock, IV Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, V Verses to the Memory of a Lady, VI To Mr Jervas, with Fresnoy's Art of Painting, VII To a Young Lady, with the Works of Voiture, and VIII Eloisa to Abelard. Volume II, Miscellaneous Poems, Translations and Imitations, contains works by a number of authors with the most significant being Dr. William King, Mr. Elisha Fenton, the Revd. Mr. Broome, the Revd. Mr. James Ward and the Reverend Mr. Archdeacon Danie. Volume II contains an index to the contents of both volumes. Both volumes are bound in contemporary full leather binding with five raised bands to the spine. The title and volume labels on the spine are lost although the volume numbers are blind stamped to the spine. The spines have chipping at the top and bottom and some edge cracking. The corners are bumped with some rubbing. Wale Family bookplate to the front pastedowns and the second volume has another family name, Lady Wale, to the front free endpaper. Browning around the edges of the endpapers. Creasing to the top corners of pages 37 to 62 in the first volume. Two sections of the text protrude a little from the rest of the text block in volume II. There is also some browning to the title pages and the frontispiece in Volume I which is a portrait of Pope and the pages are browned but are otherwise generally unmarked.