Allom Thomas Wright G N (88 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Nicholson Ltd, Hong Kong (second impression, 1989). Landscape-format hardcover. Some light foxing / spotting to top edge of text block but overall this book is in very good condition with clean, unmarked pages which are free from notes and underlining and minimal wear to dustjacket which has been covered with clear dustjacket cover. Not an ex-library copy. Dispatched from UK within three days.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

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Full Calf. Condition: Good. Text by Wright & illustrated. Partial loss to spine ends. Internally generally clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. ALLOM, Thomas (illustrator). Undated, c1847. Three volumes bound as one. Green half leather boards with gilt lettering to spine. Boards are rather rubbed including the leather tips and spine. 80 pp (32 plates) + 60 pp (32 plates) + 64 pp (32 plates). This comprises 90 full page plates, plus 3 frontispieces, plus 3 vignettes. Textblock is in good condition, clean and tight. Additional photos are available upon request. When securely packed this item will weigh in the region of 1881g. Unless specifically mentioned, all our books are photographed so you can see what you are buying. ABE may, however, display a stock image whilst processing ours. (YBP Ref: 032636:1-I5) Size: 4to - over 9 3/4" - 12" Tall Language: ENG 1881 G. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Complete with 128 intricately engraved plates showing scenes not just of important sites, such as the Great Wall, Temples, Palaces and the landscape but also of more intimate scenes, such as dinner parties and cat -merchants. The plates are accompanied by detailed descriptions by Wright, providing history and context as well as a wealth information on daily life in China. Bound in half-leather with fetching blue cloth with blind stamped floral design. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edges. 4to. (275x225mm) 96+72+68+56pp. Some rubbing and scratching to leather. Marking to rear of vol. III. Some mild spotting to front matter and edges of engravers. Else clean. Binding tight. Good.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Good+. Allom, Thomas (illustrator). Beautiful Volume of Full Page engraved Plates by Thomas Allom with text on the History of France by G. N. Wright. Undated Edition, circa 1840s. Frontis illustrated with the Grand Staircase of La Louvre and Title Page illustrated with the Abbey Church of St. Denis. 48 other Plates making 50 in total. Pages numbered up to 88 for the first series then 32 Pages on the second series. Blue cloth cover with Gilt Floral Decoration & Crowns to front, rear & spine. All page edges Gilt. Yellow Endpapers. 11" Tall. Edgewear to cloth especially at corners. Spine has small pieces missing from ends (see photo). Hinges sound and Binding Firm. Text pages a little age darkened. Some spots of Browning to Plates, mainly marginal (see photos) only occasional spots on a Plate. Weighs 1.3 Kilos so Shipping outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like more Pictures, Information or a Shipping Quote. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Thomas Allom (illustrator). sans date(vers 1850) VOLUMES 1 & 3 comportant chacun 32 gravures(piqures de rouille principalement sur les marges) reliures usagées,le premier cahier du vol 3 se detache les 2 volumes sont neanmois complet.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Thomas Allom Esq. (illustrator). Two volumes in one: Vol 1 and Vol 2. Four raised bands and ornate gilt titles and decoration of leather spine. Leather corners and spine show light edge wear. Darkened canvas cloth front and back. Marbled end papers. Page edges gilt all around. 62 full page steel engravings all with protective tissue intact. 1845 date is a guess since no date is given. Illustrations all on heavy weight paper show some foxing but mostly on outside of white margin.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO30331820: Non daté. In-4. Relié cuir dos-coins. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos frotté, Papier jauni. 80+60+63+228 pages. Texte en anglais. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, hors texte. Plats et contre-plats et tranches jaspés. Coins frottés, émoussés. Epidermures sur les plats. Accrocs au dos, dos frotté. Nombreuses rousseurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co., The Caxton Press., [1850], First Edition. Vol I ONLY of a two volume set. Half leather binding with buckram cloth boards, gilt titles to the spine, gilt page edges, rubbed and worn, with illustrated and letterpress title pages. Vol I 152pp with 73 plates including the title page and frontispiece. Provenance: signature for Francis Leteux to the front. Approximately 11 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition structurally sound, worn marked and scratched leather, gilt titles. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped rubbed and worn. Boards good condition buckram cloth and leather boards, rubbed marked and worn. Page edges good condition top edge darkened, all other edges gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition yellow, tanned and marked. End papers good condition yellow, tanned and marked. Title good condition tanned and foxed. Pages good condition damp stained, tanned and gently foxed throughout. Binding good condition sound. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: [1850] Binding: Hardback.

Half Leather. Condition: Very Good binding. Wright and Buckingham's historical descriptions of various places in Belgium, the Rhine, Italy, Greece, and the Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean, with engraved illustrations by various artists. Complete with two volumes bound in one. Vol. I is complete with all 73 plates called for in the 'Contents,' though "Great Canal, and Antique Gothic House" [or "Ghent"] is bound in at Vol. II, p. 58, and "The City of Catania and Mount Etna" is bound in near Vol. II, p. 152. Vol. II is lacking pp. 25-32, and pp. 49-56, and also lacks the eight plates that would have been in those two signatures. This is quite possibly a binder's error, as there does not appear to be any explicit damage to the textblock at those locations; the binder also misplaces a number of plates, though most of these errors are simply a few pages off. Vol. I with all 73 plates. Vol. II with 73 of the 81 plates. Altogether with 146 of the 154 plates, which includes the frontispieces and additional title pages, engraved. Some foxing to the plates; previous owners' names on the front pastedown and recto of the initial frontispiece lacking front endpaper. Surface wear to the joints, spine, and corners of the boards. Some soiling to the cloth covered boards. Half brown leather with designs in blind, decorative gilt rules, and gilt lettering, and gray cloth covered boards. Very Good. Very Good binding.

4 volumi rilegati in due tomi in-4° (28x22cm), pp. (4)-80; (4)-60; (4),64; 228; triplici frontespizi per ciascun volume di cui i primi solo figurati, i secondi con titoli e vignette incise, i terzi solo testuali e complessive 140 tavole di vedute e scene, il tutto inciso in acciaio. Elegante legatura in mezza pelle nocciola e angoli con ricchi fregi in oro e titolo e ltomaison su doppio tassello a dorsi, tagli dorati. Eccellente per analiticità e completezza la collazione del collezionista Brent Gration-Maxfield vergata a lapis in nitida grafia al contropiatto e al foglio di guardia anteriori del primo tomo, ove è prsente anche sun suo ex-libris manuale. Ottimo stato di conservazione. Vasta raccolta iconografica, che oltre alle vedute di Parigi, delle principali città e catene montuose offre una varietà di scene popolari, matrimoni, balli in campagna, caccia alla volpe, etc. Non comune a trovarsi completo di tutte le tavole. Inglese.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Four volumes, black leather spines & corners over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt decorations and lettering to spines, 10-7/8? x 8-3/4", all plates present, I: 72 + 96 pp. (32 plates), II: 72 pp. (32 plates), III: 68 pp. (32 plates), IV: 56 pp. (32 plates). In each volume, one of the plates is the vignette on the engraved title page. Rubbing to edges of boards, minor repair work to spines. Main flaw is foxing to volume 4 which affects some plates; endpapers have vertical creases from accidental folding. +++++Thomas Allom (1804-1872) was a British architect, topographer, and artist. He traveled widely and produced popular books of views of England and Constantinople. For this book on China, however, it seems unlikely that he ever traveled to China. Instead, he relied on works by previous artists. +++++In the eighteenth century, Britain was concerned about their trade deficit with China. However, the East India Company discovered that they could run opium from India to China, and, once the population was addicted to the drug, the trade imbalance was tilted in England?s favor. British imports of opium to China rose from 200 chests (about 140 pounds) in in 1729 to 40,000 chests in 1838. (That?s 5.6 million pounds of opium. According to the UN, the current street price in China for opium is about $1.80 per gram, which means the UK was delivering the equivalent of $5.6 billion in drugs.) +++++In the late 1830s, China and Britain faced off over China?s increasing crackdown on the opium traffic. It eventually led to the First Opium War of 1839-1842, which ended with the 1842 Treaty of Nanking, giving Hong Kong to the British, forcing China to increase foreign trade, and allowing the continued opium deliveries to China. +++++Thus, the English appetite for knowledge of China was at a peak when Allom produced this book in 1843. Even though Allom produced more of an anthology of art than first-hand impressions, it remained an extremely popular and influential book, and helped form England?s view of China. +++++Extra postage required for international or expedited shipping.

Leather Binding. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4 volumes, complete. Uniformly and attractively bound in full period rose morocco, spines with gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments, covers elaborately bordered and paneled in gilt and blind; gilt tooled inner dentelles, all edges gilt (minor darkening and rubbing, rear hinge of Volume I and upper hinges of all volumes show evidence of repair; scattered foxing). Includes Reeves' matching bookplate (and one other). With a total of 144 steel-engraved plates. Vol. 4 has title: France illustrated : comprising a summer and winter in Paris / drawings by Eugene Lami ; description by M. Jules Janin. 'Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son, & Co. The Caxton Press'--T.p. v. 4.B/w Steel Engravings.

[Travel] Four volumes bound as two. Quarto (28 x 22cm), pp.[2] 96; 72, pp.68; 56. Illustrated with 124 black and white engraved plates, as called for. All four title pages present. Contemporary half navy blue calf, gilt, over marbled paper-covered sides, marbled edges and endpapers. Text leaves clean, plates browned to margins as expected, covers rubbed with some wear to joints and headbands. Very good indeed, attractively bound. The standard steel-pate book on China, written by the Irish topographer and clergyman George Newenham Wright, and illustrated from drawings made in situ by the English artist and architect Thomas Allom, a founding member of what became the Royal Institute of British Architects and whose projects included The Houses of Parliament.

Cloth. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Drawings; 4to 11" tall; 184, 140 pages; Blue/Purpleish cloth which is richly gilded. Volume I outer coth covering has detached from spine along one crack. Vol II is intact and VG. 160 fullpage engravings of exquisite detail portraying landscapes, cityscapes, social activities, criminals for China and a few Korea and Japan. One of the overland routes from India. Completely useable.

Four volumes 28.3 x 22 cms, 4 engraved vignette title-pages and 124 black and white engravings after drawings by Thomas Allom, 72 + 96 pages; 72 pages; 68 pages; 56 pages; contemporary half morocco over pebbled cloth boards, spines gilt lettered with raised bands and decorated in compartments, all edges gilt, morocco a trifle rubbed and scant foxing affecting one of the title pages and a handful of plates, but a very good remarkably clean set, the fine engravings bright with great depth of tone. A very handsome example of an influential work. The fine illustrations are by Thomas Allom (1804-1872), who at the time of this publication was a well-known and highly regarded topographical artist, having produced a series of English views as well as illustrating celebrated works on Turkey and the Middle East. The author of the text (who gets second billing) the Rev'd George Newenham Wright (c. 1794?1877) was an Irish writer and Anglican clergyman who had never travelled to China and despite Allom's travels to Turkey and the Middle East there is no convincing evidence to suggest that he ever made it there either. Wright's text was drawn from his research performed at the British Library, and Allom's illustrations drew on earlier works. The majority of the views show southern China, including images of Hong Kong, Canton and Macao, reflecting the limited British access to China at the time. However, there are also some images and descriptions of Peking, Nanking and Jehol visited by the Macartney Embassy almost fifty years before. Very popular at the time of publication, "China Illustrated" answered a European demand for news of the "exotic Orient" and it gives keen insight into British attitudes towards China in the early 19th Century. It ran to a number of editions including a German edition in 12 parts with smaller plates which appeared shortly after the English edition. Cordier 80-81; Lust 363; Lowendahl 986.

4 volumes bound in 2. Large 4to. (28 x 21 cm). Contemporary full pebble-grained red morocco, sides richly gilt with foliate panel design, spines in six compartments with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In total 128 steel-engraved plates including 4 engraved vignette title-pages, all with tissue guards. I: pp. 96, with additional engraved title ('China, its scenery, architecture, social habits, &c. illustrated') and 31 plates; II: pp. 72, with additional engraved title and 31 plates; III: pp. 68, with additional engraved title and 31 plates; IV: pp. 56, with additional engraved title and 31 plates. Light foxing to some of the plates, a little toned, some light shelfwear, overall a very good copy in particularly handsome red morocco bindings. Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted topographical artist, at a time of increased interest in China, presented the Western world with the most complete portrait of China and Chinese culture up to the middle of the nineteenth century. Captioned in English, French and German, the plates encompass Hong Kong, Beijing, Nanjing, Macao, Guangzhou, and Xiamen, among other locations, and depict, inter alia, harbours, temples, palaces, mountains and rivers, military engagements, punishments, the cultivation of tea and rice and the manufacture of silk, the Great Wall of China, cat merchants, and 'playing at shuttlecock with the feet'. As well as his own observations, Allom includes some images based on the work of earlier artists such as Lieutenant Frederick White, R.M., Captain Stoddart, R.N. and R. Vaughan. The text was by George Wright, a protestant missionary who had spent a considerable time in China. Cordier 80-81; Lust 363; Lowendahl 986.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. A Most Attractive Quarto Set. 4 volumes bound in 2. Half Contemporary Brown Calf and marbled boards with raised bands and gilt to spines. Embellished with 4 Vignette Title-pages and 124 Stunning steel-engraved tissue-guarded Plates. A.e.gilt. An unusually clean and fresh set with minimal spotting / foxing. (ref. Cordier 80 - 81 ;- Lowendahl 986 ;- Lust 363.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ALLOM, Thomas (illustrator). Exhibiting its Landscape Scenery, Antiquities, Military and Ecclesiastical Architecture. Not dated, but c. 1860's. 2 volumes. Beautiful black full leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and covers. Stunning books. 0.