Plays John Davidson (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Contains the following five plays: -An Unhistorical Pastoral -A Romantic Farce -Bruce: A Chronicle Play -Smith: A Tragic Farce -Scaraouch in Naxos: A Pantomime Limited to 500 copies. This copy gift inscribed by American poet Edwin Markham on the first free endpaper. Octavo bound in brown cloth with gilt lettering & ornament. Frontispiece illustration. Condition: binding is very shabby; spine cloth is heavily chipped & brittle with tears & fraying and showing traces of very old scotch tape; rest of binding is sun-faded & worn & rubbed; minor toning to pages; else fair. Pages: 294 plus publisher's list at rear of book.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. 8vo. Cream cloth boards. Gilt figure on front board. Gilt lettering on spine. Joint betweeen front board and backstrip split. Edges of leaves uncut. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Plays by John Davidson. Being: An Unhistorical Pastoral: A Romantic Farce: Bruce - a Chronicle Play: Smith - a Tragic Farce: and Scaramouche in Naxos - a Pantomime. Printed in London by Elkin Mathews and John Lane. 1894. 294 + [15] pp. 8.5" x 6.25". 8vo. Hardcover full cloth. Overall good, with scratches to front board and discoloration to spine. Light starting and wear to hinges. Text block remains bound well. Light markings. Includes frontispiece plate and accompanying tissue guard. General age-related toning to pages, along with periodic foxing and wear. Please see photographs and ask any questions prior to purchasing. A scarce collection of five plays by john Davidson, accompanied by a frontispiece by noted English woodcut illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898).

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. 8vo. Brown cloth binding. Cloth worn. Gilt lettering on backstrip. Gilt motif on front board. Pages untrimmed. Hinge split. Pages clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:

Hardback. Being An unhistorical pastoral A Romantic Farce Bruce A Chronicle Play Smith A Tragic Farce And Scramouch in Naxos A Pantomine brown cloth some sunning gilt decortion to front board pp 294 15pp of List Of Books in Belles Lettres. book.

1st Limited Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over beveled boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Provenance: Book plate of Tor Hedberg. Limited edition to 500 hundred copies. Physical description: 4 p.l., 294 pages: front. ; 22 cm. Contents: An Unhistorical pastoral -- A Romantic farce -- Bruce: a chronicle play -- Smith: a tragic farce -- Scaramouch in Naxos: a pantomime. Subjects:English drama 19th century. Drama 19th century. Davidson, John. 3 Kg.

1st Limited Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth over beveled boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Provenance: Book plate of Tor Hedberg. Limited edition to 500 hundred copies. Physical description: 4 p.l., 294 pages: front. ; 22 cm. Contents: An Unhistorical pastoral -- A Romantic farce -- Bruce: a chronicle play -- Smith: a tragic farce -- Scaramouch in Naxos: a pantomime. Subjects:English drama 19th century. Drama 19th century. Davidson, John. 1 Kg.

First edition thus, one of 500 copies printed. Publisher's original light brown cloth with titles in gilt to the spine and a gilt scaramouche to the upper board designed by Aubrey Beardsley. Fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece and title page vignette by Aubrey Beardsley. Arts and Crafts Movement style bookplate of William S. Argent designed by Henry Ospovat to the front pastedown. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with a little toning to the spine and rubbing to the boards. The contents with two old tape marks to the front and rear endpaper and toning to the page edges are otherwise in good order and clean throughout. A nice example. The first collected edition of Davidson's earliest published works, with a wonderful frontispiece by Beardsley in his inimitable Aesthetic Movement style. A lovely copy, especially with the addition of an attractive and uncommon Henry Ospovat designed bookplate. Provenance: From the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Plays by John Davidson being: An Unhistorical Pastoral, A Romantic Farce, Bruce - A Chronicle Play, Smith -A Tragic farce, and Scaramouch in Naxos - A Pantomime Brown cloth covered boards (worn), with gilt lettering to spine and a gilt embossed Scaramouch to upper board designed by Aubrey Beardsley (same image also used on title page). One of a limited edition of 500 copies on laid paper, produced by Ballantyne Press, London; toning/offsetting to endpapers; some dust marking but generally pleasingly clean; pages trimmed to top edge only; pp.294 with additional publisher's catalogue to rear. Language: eng Language: eng.

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, illus. (illustrator). 8vo, pp. 294, plus 15 page publisher's catalog. One of 500 copies printed for England. Owner's name (?) and a portrait pasted on front flyleaf.With frontispiece, title page and a cover figure by Aubrey Beardsley. Tan cloth, stamped in gilt. Uncut. Cover somewhat worn at corners and spine, one hinge near tender, o/w VG.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1894 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 334 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 334 Davidson, John, 1857-1909.