Bede Cuthbert B a Bradley Edward (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardcover n.d.In overall fair/ near good condition. Publisher: James Blackwood & Co. 200pp. plus A Catalog of Books; 31 pages at back. 'Bede' was a pseudonym used by Edward Bradley a Punch contributor.Lilac binding with gilt lettering to faded spine. Complete. NOT ex liby; loosening a little. Foxing to prelim and final endpapers. The illns to the text remain bright. Cloth. No Jacket. Illus. by Bede. Cuthbert. 8vo - over 7 3/4 " - 9 3/4 " tall. Bede. Cuthbert. B A (illustrator). …

Text on both sides of a piece of paper 6 x 11 cm. Fair, on lightly-aged paper, with a couple of glue marks from previous mounting on reverse. The bottom part of the letter, cut away for the signature. Side with signature reads ' yet heard from the Bp. of Petebro on that point. I have to write hastily for our 3.45 post. | Believe me dear Lady Huntly yours very sincerely obliged | [signed] Edward Bradley'. Reverse reads ' of the Dining room and Study - & some of the bedrooms - and also paint the whole of the outside of the house. Paperers also come in for various rooms. My children and governess will (I think) be able to get rooms at a neighbourig Farm house [.]'.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Three volumes bound as one. Original gilt decorated dark blue cloth. With numerous illustrations, designed and drawn on the wood by the author. 123rd thousand with 6 pages of publisher's ads at the rear. No date, circa 1870's.

A highly amusing account of photography as a hobby in the middle of the nineteenth-century by a renowned comedic artist and writer of the day. Edward Bradley (1827-1889) used the pen name Cuthbert Bede for his works including frequent contributions to Punch and other illustrated magazines. The illustrations are by his own hand and depict photographic processes and terms as visual puns. First edition; 8vo (22 x 15 cm); 24 hand-coloured plates including frontispiece and illustrated title, internally clean; later calf-backed cloth boards, and endpapers, spine blind tooled with gilt morocco lettering piece, publisher's original gilt pictorial cloth and spine laid on paper and bound in rear, all edges gilt; 83, [2]pp.…