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Thomas Hardy UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE or THE MELLSTOCK QUIRE A Rural Painting of the Dutch School: with wood engravings by Clare Leighton
MacMillan, 1940 Later Edition. Binding: Hardcover (Original Cloth). Illustrator: Leighton, Clare. Book Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Size: 10" x 7.5" approx. Illustrator: Leighton, Clare. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1.25 kilos. Category: Literature & Literary; Art & Design. Inventory No: 0035686. (Book ref. 0035686) £40.00
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MILLER-PARKER, AGNES; ROGERSON, IAN AGNES MILLER PARKER wood-engraver and book illustrator, 1895-1980: with recollections of the artist by John Dreyfus
The Fleece Press, 1990 First Edition. Book Condition: Fine Condition. In original slipcase, which shows very light rubbing. One of 300 produced. Size: 9" x 11.5" approx. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1.25 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 094837523X. Inventory No: 0035389. (Book ref. 0035389) £310.00
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Wolseley Fine Arts The Art of David Jones in the 1920s : Watercolours, Drawings, Wood-Blocks, Engravings and Books
London: Wolseley Fine Arts Plc, 1992. Illustrated by Illustrated. 1st Edition. Pictorial Card Covers. Near Fine/N/a. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 40pp. A super copy of this frist edition booklet (1992). 8vo. (no spine). Contains several b/w reproductions of his work. There is some rubbing to the spine edge, otherwise the booklet is fresh, clean and tight with no inscriptions. A near fine copy. (Book ref. 228112) £14.00
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De Mare, Eric The Victorian Woodblock Illustrators
London: Gordon Fraser, 1980. Illustrated by Various. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Oblong 0900406585 Z 200pp. (cream spine) 1980. First edition. 8vo. oblong. A very good plus copy in a very good wrapper. Original publisher's quarter brown cloth over paper-covered boards with a paper title block. The text supported by reproductions in colour and black and white of the Victorian woodblock illustrators. No inscriptions. A slight bump to the head of the spine. The wrapper has not been price-clipped. Light fading to the spine of the wrapper and the tail of the rear panel of the wrapper. Slight dust soiling to the wrapper. A very good, clean, tight copy. (Book ref. 228046) £15.00
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Anon. (probably a Priest or Levite); Braby, Dorothea (Illus.) The Ninety-First Psalm with Wood-Engravings By Dorothea Braby
London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Illustrated by Braby, Dorothea. First Edition. Cream Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large 12pp. 1944. Limited edition (no. 230/350 copies) printed by The Golden Cockerel Press on Tree and Serpent hand-made paper in Golden Cockerel type. The text beautifully illustrated by the woodblocks of Dorothea Braby. Original publisher's cream/beige linen boards with gilt embossed leather title block to the spine. A lovely production. Light soiling/mottling to the cloth boards - most noticable to the head of the spine and to the front board. A very few, very slight fox spots to the paper commensurate with age. A charming book. (Book ref. 227986) £95.00
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Bronte, Charlotte; Bronte, Emily; Bronte, Anne Charlotte Emily Anne Bronte the Complete Novels Illustrated with Wood Engravings : Wuthering Heights; The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ; Jane Eyre; The Professor; Agnes Grey; Shirley; Vilette - A Box Set of 7 Volumes.
London: The Folio Society, 1991. Illustrated by Forster, Peter. First Printing Thus. Green Silk. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Large Z A first printing of the 1991 reissue with new illustrations. A very good plus or near fine set in a very good plus slipcase. A well presented box set of 7 volumes. Set in Scotch Roman with Bodoni display printed at the Bath press, Avon on Penicuik Wove Paper and bound in full moire silk covered boards. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine of the books. Light or slight fading to the moire spines - much less than is usually the case with this edition - they are still green and have not turned grey. No inscriptions. A slight soil mark to the fore-edge of 'Jane Eyre'. A bump to the head of the 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. A slight bump to the tail of 'Shirley'. The very slightest of marks to the head of the 'E' of 'The professor'. The slipcase - also covered with silk sides is in very good plus condition. There is a bump to one corner of the slipcase. A lovely well preserved set in original slipcase. (Book ref. 227775) £40.00
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Garrett, Albert; Macnab, Iain Wood Engravings and Drawings of Iain Macnab of Barachastlain
Midas, 1973. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 0859360113 Very good pbk, 4to. (Book ref. 96858) £6.00
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MAUNDER (S).: The Treasury of Natural History: or, a Popular Dictionary of Animated Nature, to which are added a Syllabus of Practical Taxidermy and a Glossarial Appendix. Fourth Edition
Longman Brown Green & Longmans, 1854 12mo., Fourth Edition, text in double column, with an engraved frontispiece, engraved and printed titles, and over 900 finely detailed woodcut illustrations in the text, frontispiece and engraved title very lightly age-soiled at margins, neat nineteenth century signature on front free endpaper; original decorative green cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, uncut, rebacked with old backstrip laid down, joints rubbed else a good, firm copy. First published in 1848. Good, clean copy of one of the most profusely illustrated mid-nineteenth century compilations of natural history. The fine frontispiece collecting a large number of species is engraved by Adlard after Marchant. 'Maunder' remained a standard reference until at least the late 1880s. Freeman (BNHB) 2532. (Book ref. 18857) £84.00
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Rayner John; illustrated by Thomas Bewick A Selection of Engravings on Wood by Thomas Bewick
Harmondsworth: King Penguin, 1947. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. King Penguin series. Small 8vo. Pictorial boards. 56 pp. B/w illustrations. No inscriptions. Clean and sound. VG (Book ref. 08920) £7.00
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Garrett, Albert A History of British Wood Engraving
Tunbridge Wells: Midas Books, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. /Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Large 4to. Colour dj. 407 pp. Superb reference to wood-engraving (illustration) and engravers, from early forms to the twentieth century. Lavishly illustrated throughout. As-new condition. FINE / FINE (Book ref. 08860) £30.00
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Burnett, David: ''The Heart's Undesign''.
Tragara Press (Edinburgh) 1977. 54pp; 2 wood engravings by Joan Hassall. Printed paper covers. VG. [One of 200 copies of a book of poetry hand-set at the Edinburgh-based private press]. (Book ref. 3692) £25.00
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Dobson, Austin: Thomas Bewick and his Pupils.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1884 Sq. 8vo Library Cloth 1st Edn. Illus. xviii, 232 pp. Covers sl. marked; library label verso f. cover; stamp prelims and later;ink no.s on title page; shelf no. on backstrip; signs of label removed f.ep; foxing & dust marking. (Book ref. 38831) £35.00
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Spalding, Frances Gwen Raverat : Friends, Family and Affections
Harvill Press, 2001. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 1860467466 A very good hbk copy with d/w. 8vo. (Book ref. 104707) £15.00
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michie, james The Folio Golden Treasury, The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Illustrated with Wood Engravings by Various Artists, selected by Simon Brett
Hardback Folio Society 1997 733 Small Quarto All items in stock -posted First Class on day of order (if received before 4.00pm) - expect next day delivery in UK, or within 3-6 working days for all non-UK destinations 1st Thus _ Quarter Leather Ne Fine (Book ref. 540675) £10.00
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Rayner, John; Bewick, Thomas Wood Engravings by Thomas Bewick. King Penguin No K30
London: Penguin, 1947. Cream boards with cockerel on front cover. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket. 56pp :: Illustrated throughout with wood engravings :: 180mm x 130mm (7" x 5") (Book ref. kp30b) £10.60
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YOUNG Francis Brett: Portrait of A Village
Heinemann 1937 9 x 6.5 ins.,wood engravings Joan Hassall.Pages: 180,frontis.,29 engravings,pictorial eps.,sl.spotting eps.,spine sl.faded.VG+ no d/w (Book ref. 3491) £8.50
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SERRAILLIER Ian: The Road To Canterbury : Tales from Chaucer retold by Ian Serraillier
Kertrel Books 1979 8vo., illustrated with wood engravings by John Lawrence. 144 pages,wood engravings, near FINE in VG+ unclipped dust jacket (Book ref. 6067) £8.00
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GOETHE,Johann Wolfgang von ,illustrated by Alexander Liezen Mayer/Rudolf Seitz: FAUST : eine tragodie
Munchen, Theodor Stroefers n.d.(1870/1880's) 13.25 x 10 ins.,small folio,original decorated cloth,a.e.g.,254pps.,plates by Mayer(tissue guards) with elaborate ornamentation by Seitz,including bordering to text pages,title page in red & black,green cloth with red & gold decoration plus gilt,bevelled edges,sl.fade to spine with some rubbing,frayed head/tail and one small bare patch near base of backstrip tiny bit of spotting but tissue guards protected plates.A very good copy,clean and crisp.Heavy 2kg,enquire re.postage (Book ref. 4185) £80.00
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BROOMHEAD, Frank: Orlando Jewitt The Book Illustrations of
Private Libraries Association, 1995 From print run of 1250 copies, tall 8vo, xvi, 256pp 99 illus + many illustrations of bookplates. FINE copy. (Book ref. 8172) £10.00
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BLANC M. LE & ARMENGAUD M.M.: The Engineer & Machinist's Drawing Book, A complete course of instruction for the practical engineer... illustrated by numerous engravings on steel and wood
Blackie & Son 1868 folio, half bound (leather spine and corners), viii, 116 pps., 71 plates(architectural drawings), illustrations/ wood cuts in the text. A rather worn copy, joints partially split, covers, scuffed and corners bumped, backstrip frayed and damaged. Internally, foxing, some pages and a few plates quite heavy foxing, majority of plates just light scattered foxing. Overall probably G/G+ and priced accordingly. There are no loose pages and all secure although front hinge split. (Book ref. 8510) £45.00
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