Richards J M Ravilious Eric (30 results)

Hardback. Condition: New. A facsimile edition of the classic High Street, which pairs the timeless illustrations of Eric Ravilious with a fascinating text by architectural historian J. M. Richards. First published in 1938, this charming book introduces the British high street. Shops include the family butcher, the cheesemonger,…

Hardback. Condition: New. A facsimile edition of the classic High Street, which pairs the timeless illustrations of Eric Ravilious with a fascinating text by architectural historian J. M. Richards. First published in 1938, this charming book introduces the British high street. Shops include the family butcher, the cheesemonger,…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VG Dustjacket. Reprint. Bound in clean and unworn colour illustrated cloth with clear titles to front board and spine, this dated 2012 V & A Reprint is VG in VG jacket(unclipped). 111pp with Foreword, 24 Chapters, each relating to particular Trade, and each trade illustrate…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. RAVILIOUS, Eric (Illus.); RICHARDS, J.M. (Text). The Story of High Street. Sparham: The Mainstone Press, 2008. Limited edition of 750 copies, a handsome production to mark the 70th anniversary of the original edition of High Street, first published in 1938 by Country Life Books. Conceived as a childre…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Original pictorial paper covered boards in the scarce original glassine dustwrapper with printed card flaps. Cover illustrations and 24 full page colour lithographs by Eric Ravilious. A UK first edition, first impression. The book is tight. There are no prev…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 24 colour lithographs by Ravilious, as well as Black and White decorative illustration on title page. From the library of John Carter (author of the influential ABC for Book Collectors), with his bookplate and a short pencil note by him on FFEP. Very Good (light rubbing to extremities) in the scar…

FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp. 100, [2]. Twenty-four colour lithograph illustrations included in pagination. Original colour-printed boards, glassine dustjacket with card flaps. Head of spine a bit worn, fragile dustjacket with some chipping to top edge and some loss to bottom of front panel. One of the most iconic illustrated bo…

Number 152 of the 500 first issue hessian-bound copies, housed in a black slipcase. The book is introduced by J. M. Richards, a longstanding friend of Ravilious' and it was designed at the Royal College of Art by John Carrod. The Curwen Press printed the book on Basingwerk Parchment, using pale blue for the preliminary pages and…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. First Edition. Octavo. 100, [2] pp., illus. First edition. As issued, in printed paper over flexible boards; this copy discreetly rebacked with 80% of the original backstrip laid down. Light rubbing to the binding; foxing to the fore-edge with occasional foxing to the margin of a few lea…

Folio (420 x 295mm), no.145 of 500 copies printed; pp.(262) including 113 leaves of engravings (some folding) printed on rectos only, fold-out index & colophon leaves; 421 engravings of various sizes including some originally unused and published here for the first time; a fine copy in original buckram, lettered in gold along ba…

First edition, first impression. Published in an edition thought to be 2,000 copies, High Street was never reprinted, as the original lithograph stones were destroyed during the Blitz when the Curwen Press premises in Plaistow, East London, received two direct hits. The Country Life warehouse was also a victim of the London Blit…

First edition. Original pictorial paper covered boards in original glassine dustwrapper with printed card flaps. A superb, near fine copy, showing only trivial wear to the spine ends and corners and a prize label (to Paul Sharp) to the front pastedown, in a very good glassine with a couple of minor chips and two closed tears. An…