Anon Combe William (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. No Jacket. New Edition. 24 colored plates by Thomas Rowlandson. Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator).

Cloth. Condition: Good. Illustrated Pocket Library of Plain and Coloured Books. 12mo, top edge gilt, 250 pp., color plates. Superficial insect damage to exterior, nick to fore-edge of front board also affecting first few leaves, spine label chipped, front hinge cracked, foxing to page edges, endpapers, and page margins throughout, book plate on front pastedown. Thomas Rowlandson (illustrator). …

Condition: Fair. Hand-coloured plates (24) by Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827). Tall octavo disbound with remains of calf spine gilt. Hand-coloured frontis (illegible name on back) + titlepage + 254 of 267pp (lacking last 7 leaves). Pages 249-256 repeated in pagination but text and register are continuous. Corner losses not touching print to 6 leaves at front and back, last leaf present stained and browned on back, some corner creases. Here sold for the very fine 24 hand-coloured Plates. *The rarest of the Syntax books as it only seems to have had one printing (1822), plus a 1903 copy of the 1822 edition with the plates colour printed. 1 volume. Disbound.…

Condition: Very Good-. Hand-coloured plates (81) + uncoloured portrait of the dedicatee by Westall, Pugin, Nash, Mackenzie, Turner & Sir J. Reynolds costume plates by Unwins. Large quarto (36x28.5cm page size/binding height 38cm) contemporary sugar paper covered boards rebacked with printed labels (tips worn & lower edge somewhat shelf worn/corners a bit bumped). Half title + coloured frontisplate + title + uncoloured Grenville portrait + dedication leaf + [vi]-xiv (subscribers & plate list) +1-xxv (the city) +275pp +[6]p index; Vol.II half title + colour frontisplate + title +262pp +[6]pp index. Without the Founders' portraits which are not called for in the plate list and which Tooley notes were 'not issued till a later date' so the book is complete without these. Some off-setting of plates to adjacent text leaves but not affecting legibility. More than a dozen plates carry the watermark of WHATMAN 1812 and most plates are uncut (ie not trimmed) thus with slight narrow edge tanning. Ex Library with circular blind stamps (1.6cm) throughout. The verso of both titlepages have 3x4mm stamp with accession & shelf number and "enf.trans.4/70" filled in neatly. It does not show through to recto of leaf and there is now a gift book plate tipped over this. The pastedown has bookplate of F.W. Searle + initials & 1" red ink circle. Newer free endpaper watermarked 1833 and is not part of the pastedown or next free sheet. *Beautiful and very clean copy with large margins, clean unsmudged coloring on thick crisp paper (Abbey Scenery 278). 2 volumes. Hardcover.…