Chase by William Somervile (109 results)

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book will have been read but remains clean. Cover may have light wear or slight soiling. Pages may be slightly tanned. May contain inscriptions but text pages will be free from markings.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Hugh Thomson. (illustrator). pp.xxvi+88. 21.5cm. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, & line illustrations in the text, some full page by Hugh Thomson. Hard cover decorated in gilt to spine and upper cover. Slight edge wear. A good clean and bright copy. (Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1735, with a Memoir of the Author).

Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: Good. stock photo does not represent this listing; 1896; blue cloth covered boards with gold titles and accents; wear and discoloration around edges; corners and edges are scuffed; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; hinges are cracked; previous stores price sticker on inside of rear cover; pages are lightly toned with light foxing present; 87 pages. Photos available upon request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). 1st. 1st thus, Reprinted from the original edition of 1735, with a memoir of the author; navy c w/gilt decorations/titles, lite wear at spine/tips; black end papers, top edge gilt; 88 clean, unmarked pages.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). 1st Edition. Uninscribed. Cloth is clean and gilt is bright. There is slight rubbing to the spine ends.

Hardcover. pp. xxiv, 87. 4to. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Light shelfwear, corners bumped, bookplates to front endpapers; very good.

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Thus. Dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gold. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hugh thomson (illustrator). 8vo, illustd, orig blue cloth gilt, small bit edge rubbed, minor blemish to bottom of rear board, gilt good, a good clean tight volume. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed thus. xxiv, 87 pp reprinted from the original 1735 edition with a memoir of the author and illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Blue boards with gilt decorations and titles the book is in very good condition.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator). 1st Edition. In publishers' dark blue cloth with gilt decorations on front board and spine. Top edge gilt with untrimmed foredge. Very attractive with no fading, fraying or splitting and clean unmarked pages. Small name a date on the half-title. Payment by credit card through ABE. Paypal accepted.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). 1st Edition. 87pp. Illustrated throughout. Blue cloth lettered in gilt with gilt decoration . Top edge gilt. Eight full page illustrations in line, as well as decorative headpieces. A nice copy with no fading. A v. trifle rubbed. Frontis. and tissue foxed otheriwse clean. Attractive armorial bookplate of J.E.St Mawr MacPhail.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Light shelf/reading wear. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). First Thus. Reprinted from the original edition of 1735, with a memoir of the author. Very presentable, tight and sound copy. Top edge gilt. Extremities bumped and lightly rubbed but an attractive copy of this handsome book. Xxiv + 87 pages. Size: 8vo. Illustrator: Hugh Thomson. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 0020356.

Original Boards. Condition: Very Good. 1-95 & (iv); 100 - 167; (i) pages. Engraved frontispiece, additional engraved title-page. Original printed paper coverd boards, short split on front hinge holding well. Ms name in upper margin of the title page. In Dove's English Classics series. A very good unsophisticated copy.

Hardcover, gilt stamped. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Thomson, Hugh (illustrator). Reprint edition. 87p, many ills. + several plates and cover designs by Hugh Thomson. The memoir is by R. Farquharson Sharp. Frontispiece is detached. An early and often reprinted long poem on hare and fox hunting, by a lifelong enthusiast of the hunt. An example of the Georgic style, which extols country life in the classical manner of Virgil's Georgics. The contemporaneous custom-made jacket is of plain maroon bookcloth, stamped on the spine. It has served well to protect the binding, which is very bright. Thomson was a popular illustrator of Jane Austen and other novelists. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Hardback, full-calf, front board detached. xxxix, 135pp. Engraved title and 8 engraved plate. A little occasional foxing/grubby marks to contents. Private ownership. (an6).

Condition: new. ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1896). (1735) 1896 new edition. Square 8vo (172 x 222mm). Ppxxvi,88. B/w illustrations by Hugh Thomson, biographical essay by R. Farquharson Sharp. Blue cloth, illustrated and titled in gilt. Some wear to cloth else gilt bright. Slightly browned and shaken, good. This is the story of a hunt, presented as an extended poem, by a noted Warwickshire huntsman of the early eighteenth century. "William Somervile .was born at Edstone, in the parish of Wootton Warren, Warwickshire, in 1677. .The poet's great grandfather is reported to have been intimate with Shakespeare after the latter's retirement from the stage, and possessed a portrait of him - supposed to be by the hand of Nicholas Hilliard - which was preserved in the Somervile family." "Of all books on hunting, this alone seems to describe 'sport' in its true meaning, and is a great deal more correct in details than any modern books I ever read." .

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Large octavo. Green cloth with gilt pictorial design to front cover. 87pp. Numerous black and white line drawings by Hugh Thomson. Some rubbing at head and tail of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprinted from the original edition of 1735, with a memoir of the author. Original gilt decorated blue cloth, top edge gilt. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Front hinge starting, spine darkened, spine ends and corners bumped, still a very good copy.

Hardback. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). Reprint. Including a memoir of the author Somerviles poem is clothbound with a gorgeous hunting scene embossed in gilt to the front with also gilt titles to the spine Generous frontispiece and further rural illustrations by Hugh Thomson ppxxiv86 Good condition with come cool gilding. book.

First edition thus. xxiv, 87pp. Frontis, illustrated initial letters and 8pp. ills. by Thomson. Bound in half brown morocco, cream marbled bds. sl. faded. Gilt dec. to compartments of spine. T.e.g. Head of spine knocked, extremities worn. Marbled e/ps, contents clean and fresh. VG+.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator). Blue cloth boards with gilt decs, no dustwrapper; 87pp; b/w ills. Cloth is marked with rubbed and bumped corners and spine ends; slight lean to spine; foxing to endpapers; significant foxing to frontis tissue guard. Reprinted from the original edition of 1735, with a memoir of the author.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). First edition. Poem by William Somervile, first thus with illustrations by Hugh Thomson. William Somervile's poemThe Chase, originally published in 1735. This is the first edition with embellishments by renowned illustrator Hugh Thomson. Reprinted from the original edition with a memoir of the author.The Chase is Somervile's most known poem, the period's only third georgic poem on an English subject. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with minor shelf wear, spine and boards bumped to extremities, light soiling to boards, touch of damp mark to extremities of the boards. Previous ownership inscription to half title, dated 1907. Internally, firmly bound. Few minor spots scattered to the occasional leaf, although generally pages are bright and clean. With illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Good. book.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Hugh Thomson (illustrator). A delightful illustrated edition of William Somervile's celebrated verse, with engravings by Hugh Thomson. An early English georgic, this work first appeared in 1735.Written by William Somervile, an English poet active in the early eighteenth century and best known for this work.Bound in the publisher's original decorative binding.With illustrations through the text by Hugh Thomson (1860-1920), an Irish illustrator renowned for his pen and ink illustrations for the likes of J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens and Jane Austen. There are as well sixteen tipped-in colour plates by Alfred Rawlings. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original full cloth binding. Externally very smart; a little bumped to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Internally, generally firmly bound; straining at the title page and occasionally through the text. Pages are a touch age-toned at the edges. Good. book.