Palace Westminster: Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 180pp, profusely illustrated in black and white. Signed by George Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons and author of the foreword, dated December 1981, on the front free endpaper. In blood cloth-covered boards with gilt stamped titles on spine. Small 4to. Cloth a little rounded at extreme corners and spine tips. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, very slightly bumped on extreme edges and perhaps a tad faded.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE. xii, 308pp. b&w and colour plates plus textual b&w illustrations. Near fine clean condition but unclipped dj has edgewear tears and pulls top spine dj. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. First edition, first impresion. Signed by the author, Jenny Tadfield, on the title page. 60pp, profusely illustrated in black and white. Laminated, illustrated stiff card covers. 4to. Some gentle edge wear to card covers, a little rubbed in places on extreme edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A bookmark from the Parliamentary Bookshop loosely laid in. Most who see the House of Commons chamber for the first time think that it is very old. But in fact it is a modern building, which replaced the Victorian Chamber destroyed by enemy action in May 1941. This book tells the story of the destruction and rebuilding of the Chamber, and relives in pictures the wartime and austerity years in Parliament. Jennifer Tadfield, assistant Librarian in the House of Commons Library when she wrote this book, went on to become the first female House of Commons Librarian, serving in that role from 1993 until her retirement in 1999, after 36 years of service in the Library.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. The book is signed by John Gingell, who was Black Rod from 1985 to 1992. 64 pages. Colour & b/w photographs and other illustrations throughout. Red padded leatherette boards. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 27 cm x 20 Cm. Signed.

1868 - LONDON WESTMINSTER HOUSES of PARLIAMENT NEW PALACE YARD (178) For more info please ask seller a question. Royal Mail 2nd Class - £0.00 Royal Mail 2nd Class Signed For - £4.50 Standard Int'l age - £4.00 Royal Mail International Signed - £8.00 No PICK UP OPTIONSorry, our items are NOT available for pick-up.PAYING VIA PAYPALWe accept on our all our items so you can shop with confidence.Simple choose the option when proceeding through the checkout.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to. With jacket. 180 pp. B/w photos and illustrations. Signed by Patrick Cormack at front endpaper. Clean and bright. VG+ / VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed on half title by Naughtie and also by David Steel, David Owen, Neil Kinnock and Robin Day. Invitation to the launch party at the National Liberal Club in Whitehall loosely inserted. Near Fine in dustwrapper. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. Cloth. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Frontispiece with tissue guard. 643 illustrations including 18 colored plates and a photogravure plate. Hinge starting. Soiling and general wear.; Quarto; Signed by Author. Illustrated by Illustated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2 v. (592 pp.) ; 643 illustrations, 18 color plates, portraits (partly in color) ; 29 cm. ; LCCN: 04-777 ; OCLC: 752227 ; LC: JN511 ; ex-library, labels ; presentation by MP Francis Sharp Powell to the Free Library of Wigan in 1903, with signed auto graph letter instructing his staff to acquire and present the volume to the library, bound into volume 1 ; 1/2 red buckram leather, ornate raised bands; all edges gilt ; marbled endpapers ; Francis Powell served as a member of the House of Commons f rom 1857-1891 and again from 1885-1910, and is the subject of the well-known statue in Mejacs Park ; heavily illustrated history of the Houses of Parliament, with portraits of every important figure, interior photographs of the statuary, architecture and portraits of the two Houses, as well as reproductions of painted scenes of important events in the history of the nation ; tear to spine of volume 1 ; wear to corners and hinges ; otherwise VG, VG. Book.…

Condition: Good. Ink on board. Signed , annotated and dated. 28 x 37.2cm.Intended as an illustration for The Daily Graphic. Caption for the illustration as published is attached.Edward Frank Gillett was born at Worlingham, Suffolk on 23 July 1874 and baptised on 19 August 1874, son of Revd Jesse Gillett (1833-3 December 1893), curate of Worlingham, and his wife Eliza Marten née Duplock (1842-19 September 1908), who married at Crewe, Cheshire on 8 June 1864. In September 1875, his father Jesse was licensed to the vicarage or perpetual curacy of Aldeby, near Loddon, Norfolk and in 1881 young Edward was a 6-year-old living at The Vicarage, Beccles Road, Aldeby with his parents, 47-year-old Jesse and 38-year-old Eliza and his three siblings, Charles William 5, who was born at Worlingham with Emily Harriett 3 and newly born Maud Elizabeth, who were both born at Aldeby. After schooling at Gresham School, Holt, Norfolk, Frank became a clerk at Lloyd's, moving to London and, together with his older brother Frederick who was also a Lloyd's clerk, both lodging with Frederick Daniels, a law writer, at 56 Thornton Street, Stockwell, London. In 1891, an 18-year-old 'clerk at Lloyds', lodging at 56 Thornton Street, a position he retained until 1896 when he became a full-time illustrator on the staff of the 'Daily Graphic' 1898-1908, moving to 'The Black & White' 1908-1911 and 'The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News' 1910-1923. A painter, black and white artist and illustrator, elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1909 and in the same year he became a founder member of the Pencil Society and was also a member of London's Langham Sketching Club. He specialised in foxhunting and hare-coursing scenes, including his painting, 'Beccles-Coursing' exhibited at Wingfield Sporting Gallery, London also exhibiting at Fine Art Society; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery; the Royal Academy and Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, from St Alban's, Hertfordshire in 1909, London in 1911 and Beccles, Suffolk 1918. He illustrated 'St George for England' by G.A. Henty and many other Henty books. In 1901, an artist (painter), living at 23 Gayton Road, Hampstead with his widowed mother and six siblings. He married firstly at St Augustine's Church, Highbury, London on 22 April 1903, Elsie Joanna Bastard (1870-4 January 1912) and secondly at Aldeby, Norfolk in 1914, Margaret Helen Mickelburgh (12 February 1891-1974) and they had one son, David born in 1915. After spending some time in London, he returned to Aldeby in 1916. Edward Frank Gillett was of Red Tiles, Northgate Street, Beccles, when he died at the London Hospital on 1 May 1927, aged 52, and after his death his widow remarried in 1948, William Morris. Sometimes known as Frank Edward Gillett.…