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Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. 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. Reprinted from 1902 edition. 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 and contains approximately 28 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English.
Published by James McKelvie & Sons 1973(1886), Greenock, 1973
Seller: C P Books Limited, Oxted, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Spine bumped, corners lightly bumped, ; Includes Greenock Ephemara; 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.7"; non paginated pages.
Published by McKelvie and Sons, 1973
Seller: Martin Bott Bookdealers Ltd, Felixstowe, United Kingdom
Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Reprint. High qualify facsimile reprint of the 1886 original edition. 43 B&W plates. VG copy in green cloth/gilt as issued. Size: 4to.
Published by James Mckelvie & Sons, Greenock, 1973
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Hard. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint. Closed edges foxed, owner inscription to ffep, else clean and tidy. Size: 4to.
Published by James Mckelvie & Sons, Greenock, 1886
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. 4to. A very good copy in the original brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the upper board. Bevelled edges. Top edge gilt. Boards show a little wear. A clean copy internally without foxing or ownership inscription. Unpaginated. Comprises 43 captioned full-page sketches.
Publication Date: 1886
Seller: Graham York Rare Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Condition: Good. 1886, Greenock, James McKelvie & Sons, 4to, no pagination, black and white illustrations, brown cloth.
Published by James McKelvie & Sons,, 1886
Seller: Bird's Books, Edinburgh, SCOTL, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, 4to. original full morocco with titles and decoration in gilt on front. Boards with bevelled edges. Rubbing and wear to edges and corners, gilt a little faded. All edges gilt. Lovely gilt decoration to the edges of the pastedowns, brown endpapers. Ornamented title page in red and black. A collection of 43 lithographic plates of sketches of the town and harbour. The plates are well executed, nice & clean. Ex reference library with few markings, pictorial book plate on rear pastedown, blind stamp on title page, plates I, XVII, XLIII and guard for plate XVIII. ***Heavy and may require extra overseas postage***.
Seller: Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands
Greenock, 1886. 1 pp. 43 lithogr. plts. Title-page & preface with tear. Cloth, spine little damaged.
Published by James McKelvie & Sons, Greenock, 1886
First Edition
First Edition. 290mm x 230mm (11" x 9"). 43 plates + interleaves. 43 black and white lithographic plates. Scottish illustrations. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. G : in Good condition. Some rubbing and bumping on corners. Occasional minor foxing. Teg Brown/Gilt hardback cloth cover.
Published by James McKelvie & Sons, Greenock, 1886
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this beautiful collection of illustrations from the harbour town of Greenock. First edition. Illustrated with forty-three plates with guard plates. Collated complete. A collection of sketches of Greenock, a harbour town in Scotland, with images of Princes Pier, James Watt Dock, the Great Harbour, Court Houses, and West Church Spire. Created by Cathcart William Methven, a Scottish engineer who was Engineer-in-Chief at Greenock on the Clyde, and appointed in 1888 as Harbour Engineer in Durban. Besides being an architect and able musician, he was, unusually, a gifted landscape artist and produced many fine paintings of Natal scenery. He founded the Durban Art Gallery in 1892. With original prospectus for the work. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fraying to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good. book.
Published by James McKelvie & Sons, Greenock, 1886
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 4to. Unpaginated. 43 litho plates of considerable quality. Full morocco, gilt extra, by the publisher. Beveled edges. Aeg. Extremities a little worn and some foxing to prelims (front and back) A superior binding, presumably executed by the publisher for presentation.
Published by James McKelvie & Sons, Greenock, 1886
First Edition
Leather. Condition: Very Good. Cathcart W. Methven (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of engineer and artist Cathcart William Methven's impressive volume of illustrations of the harbour town Greenock, in Scotland. In the publisher's original signed full morocco binding, from McKelvie & Sons of Greenock.Consisting of forty-three monochrome lithographic plates by Methven, including depictions of local churches, the harbours, the Mariner's Asylum, the quays, and the local sugar refinery. Collated, complete.The artist responsible for these impressive plates, Cathcart William Methven, was Engineer-in-Chief at Greenock on the Clyde, before being appointed in 1888 as Harbour Engineer in the South African city of Durban.With the illustrated bookplate of British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman Peter Markham Scott to the front pastedown. Scott was the only child of Antarctic explorer Sir Robert Falcon Scott.A beautifully illustrated work, providing a detailed visual account of a Scottish harbour town in the late nineteenth century. In the publisher's original signed full morocco binding, with gilt detailing to front board. Rubbing to back strip head and tail and board perimeters, resulting in minor losses to the leather. Head of front joint starting, with board holding firm. Rear hinge starting, with board holding firm. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean, though age toned to perimeters. Very Good. book.