Bard by Gray Thomas (9 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition, (52pp including 12 engravings + 12 pages of adverts full page with engraved vignette relating to Natural History subjects etc., nicely bound in full calf, elaborately gilt decorated spine, marbled endpapers, splendid binding but unfortunately the pages are foxed throughout, fine bookplate: Daniel Drew inside front cover, VERY GOOD, Van Voorst, London, 1837. TALBOT, Mrs. John (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Approx 40pp.8vo. The text and illustrations printed upon one side only recto. Following the text several pages of Publishers' adverts. illustrated. Bound in the original brown cloth rubbed to the extremities, ruled in blind stamp with gilt title to the upper cover and spine. All edges gilt and yellow end-papers. To the front paste-down an armorial bookplate otherwise unmarked internally and free from inscription. Unfoxed. A lovely copy in great condition for its age. Hon. Mrs John Talbot (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 8vo (20 x 14 cm). 12 engravings and text. Brown leather covers, a.e.g., gilt dentelles, gilt decorations to covers, gilt decorations and titles to spine. PO signature to free endpaper, stamp (front paste-down endpaper) and rules label (rear paste-down endpaper) of The Brownlow Memorial Hall Lending Library, foxing to front/back pages, no publishers advertising. OCLC 8472957. Mrs. John Talbot (illustrator).…

First edition. [40]pp. With 12 engraved plates (11 after designs by Talbot) and seven terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Printed on rectos only. Original publisher's brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Spotted. An attractively illustrated edition of Thomas Gray's (1716- 1771) popular Pindaric Ode, edited by bibliographer and librarian to the Duke of Bedford, John Martin (1791-1855), who, in his prefatory remarks lavishes his illustrator, Caroline Jane Stuart Talbot (d. 1876), with well-deserved praise. Talbot was the author of Parochial Mission-Women: their work, and its fruits (1862), but appears not to have been involved with any further publications. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No DJ. Published: 1836. 1st Thus. Illustrated Edition. DESCRIPTION: Two volumes bound as one in grey buckrum with red leather title plates to gilt decorated spine. Marbled endpapers and red text block edges. 1) The Elegy 1836 First Thus. Frontis of Thomas Gray. Engraved title pg. and 32 wood engraved illustrations by E. Landells, J Byfield, T. Bagg, W.H. Powis, C. Gray. 2) The Bard 1836 First Edition. Illutrations by J. Jackson, O. Smith, F. Branston, J. Thompson and J. Cleghorn from drawings by The Honourable Mrs John Talbot. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Wear to corners and edges. 2cm split to upper front spine edge. Rubbed and lightly soiled boards and spine. Tightly bound with faded intact endpapers with strong hinges. Bookplate to front paste down. DJ Condition: No DJ Size: 20cm by 13cm.…

Two works bound together in a beautifull full-leather binding, blind-stamped, gilt decoration and title on spine, unpaginated, xxxii poems with illustration + 12 illustrations accompanying the poem 'The Bard'. 14x20cm. Binding by H. Betheran, London. Splendid copy!! 0 g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Welsh Poetry, VG+, 1st ed, 1822. Uncommon. In contemporary tree calf boards. Modern re-spine, gilt tooling & titles. Internally, [7], (viii) only, [3], 4-75 pp, [1] adverts, yellow endpapers, text block edges yellowed, small embossed stamp of J Prichard to upper board & tp, new fep to match, old paper repair to end blank edge, hinges strengthened. (92*161 mm). Welsh title: Cyvieithion o Saesoneg: sev, Palestina, can arobryn Heber; Y bardd: awdl arddunawl Gray; ac amrywion gàn Idrison. Uncommon - COPAC shows 3 copies whilst Worldcat shows 2.…