Eothen, Signed (4 results)

Internally VG bright copy in publishers cloth marked in two corners. 1st edition, 1st issue. Illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. Presentation copy from Brangwyn's Contemporary William Russell Flint to his Wife and dated 1937. ISBN B009GNNV12.

Folio (30 x 24 cm). Mit 12 mont. farbigen Taf. sowie zahlr. Vignetten von Frank Brangwyn. 305 S. OHpgt. m. goldgeprägt. Rückentitel. Kopfgoldschnit, sonst unbeschnittene Büttenkanten. Eines von 100 numer. Ex., vom Künstler signiert. - Einband fleckig u. berieben, sonst wohlerhalten. gr.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. Alexander Kinglake (illustrator). 2nd Edition. A very popular work of Eastern travel, apparently first published anonymously, in which he (the author) described a journey he made about ten years earlier in Syria, Palestine and Egypt, together with his Eton contemporary Lord Pollington. it was instantly successful. (Eothan means From the East). "In August 1834, Kinglake set out on an eighteen-month odyssey through Europe and the Ottoman empire. After encountering plague in Constantinople, he travelled to Smyrna, Cyprus, Beirut, the Holy Land, and Jerusalem, before crossing the Sinai Desert to Cairo. Following three weeks in Egypt, he returned north through Damascus and Asia Minor then via Athens, Corfu, Rome, and Turin to London. On 5 May 1837, Kinglake was called to the bar and yet continued to travel, visiting Switzerland in 1843, and the following year Eothen, his account of the 1834-5 Turkish adventures, was published and included two of his own watercolours. as frontis and in text full page plates both superb, all in a superb 3/4 gilt calf extra binding by Zahnsdorff of London for Mc Clurg. signed by Zahnsdorff green calf and marbled boards with tooled gilt unique spines a unique binding custom made includes the original front cloth gilt cloth pictorial of the original book bound in at the terminus. a fine copy rare thus this is the 2nd issue of the 1st edition. and was published without Kinglakes name on the title page as was the first. By the Binder.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Large 4t0. pp 306. Original publisher's quarter vellum, green cloth; gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Covers somewhat scuffed; dents to tail of spine; discreet name at corner of front pastedown, boards slightly scuffed sound about VG. With the 12 tipped in coloured plates by Brangwyn as called for, and line drawings including chapter heads. Limited edition of 100 copies, of which this is no. 25 signed by Frank Brangwyn. This book is very heavy, and delivery costs may be a consideration especially outside Britain. Signedes.