Comical Doings (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Undated. Circa 1810. - [7], 8-40pp. Hand coloured engraved frontispiece. A collection of anecdotes and stories with a comic twist.etc. Recently rebound in marble boards with a cloth spine and label on front board. The frontiscropped affecting fore-edge and with loss of caption, else very good copy. [One copy listed at Oxford on JISC] RARE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. [Bingham, Clifton ; Louis Wain, illustrator] Comical doings. London: Ernest Nister, s.d. [1909]. Hardback, VG. Illustrated board to front with light shelfwear and a couple of small marks; lower board is plain white with a few marks and light creasing to one corner. Brown cloth spine, slightly worn to top and base. Christmas gift inscription to ffep. Frontispiece colour iillustration tipped in. Following the frontispiece the block has come loose from the stapled binding but remains square and tight. Unpaginated [36pp.] sequence of children's rhymes with b/w illustrations; publisher advertisements at the end, including the rear pastedown. Contents clean and bright. Scarce. Clifton Bingham was Nister's in-house popular lyricist.Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain produced hundreds of drawings and paintings a year for periodicals and books, including Louis Wain's Annual which ran from 1901 to 1921. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. WAIN Louis (illustrator). Undated and unpaginated. Illustrated boards with red cloth spine. No inscriptions. Black and white drawings and illustrationsto every page. Coloured illustration tipped in opposite title page. The whole authentically worn and faded. Tight, robust and scarce.