Engravings by Bewick Thomas, Signed (5 results)

LIMITED EDITION (#141/1000), SIGNED BY AUTHOR, imperial octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, illus title page, 53pp + plates- not counted presumed all present, VG (moderate fading to board edges, light chafing & foxing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm ink stamp to front pastedown, light foxing to pgs at gutters throughout) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping to edges with some loss at spine extrems, moderate tanning & foxing to spine & edges, price clipped).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Graham Sutherland, Thomas Bewick, etc. (illustrator). Limited Edition. A slim booklet of poems and engravings by, amongst others, Edmund Blunden, Christopher Hassall and Laurence Whistler. Printed by the Golden Head Press in a limited edition of 275 copies and with engravings by Graham Sutherland, Thomas Bewick, Raymond Lister, etc. This copy has an inscription on the half title by Laurence Whistler "John from Laurie with good wishes June 1968" and a one word comment, in his hand, against his poem in the book. Fine in original green wraps. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Thomas Bewick (illustrator). 53 pages including 47 page introduction by Reynolds Stone, reproductions of 351 engravings by Thomas Bewick,John Bewick and the pupils, book in near fine/fine condition in buckram binding by G & J Kitcat (ink ownership inscription on front free end-paper) with very good dust-wrapper (not price clipped, dust marked, top edge creased and repaired, now protected in a removable plastic cover). Number 988 of an edition of 1000 copies signed bt Reynolds Stone. Loosely enclosed is a 2009 bookseller's invoice (Heinrich Heine Antiquariat, Dusseldorf) and a postcard of the shop and publicity card with an illustration of a binding. Heavy book-additional shipping will be requested for destinations out-with the United Kingdom. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ltd ed 19/1,000 signed by Reynolds Stone. Produced on very fine paper to ensure clear images in collotype of Bewick's detailed engravings. Stone, himself an engraver chose the 351 engravings here, and used collotype as the best method, as the blocks had been lost, of ensuring the quality of image from surviving texts. 49pp of text by Stone. and a further title page vignette engraving by Stone of Nicholson's portrait of Bewick. Illustrations throughout. Pages slightly browned, red cloth covered boards are fine in substantial buckram. Dj is a bit rubbed and also sunned to spine and top edge. Very good indeed. Loosely inserted is a review slip from the publishers giving the date of publication. Acquired from Maude Lloyd, an admired leading dancer with Ballet Rambert in the 1930s. With her husband, Nigel Gosling a renowned art critic, she later wrote, influential dance books and reviews under the joint pseudonym, 'Alexander Bland'. When Rudolph Nureyev defected in 1961, Margot Fonteyn asked them to befriend him which they gladly did offering him freedom of their house. Gosling edited his autobiography. Nureyev wrote an admiring memoir of him in Observer of the Dance anthologising Goslings reviews, "He and Maude were like my family.". Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Number 131 of 1000 copies printed on Japon and signed by the author. Title-page vignette and 351 other illustrations. Maroon buckram with gilt spine titling, top edge tinted, grey hand-made paper dust-jacket. A fine copy. Signed by Author(s).