Bradfer Lawrence (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. 44 pages, illustrated, mild tanning to covers.

Card. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket (as published), [16] Pages (Printed One Side Only). Clean And Soundly Bound, Covers Browned At The Edges. Not Ex Library.

Condition: Poor. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,500grams, ISBN:

Condition: Good. Good condition. 2nd edition. Plastic wrapper added. (England, Castle Rising).

Hardcover. 103 pages. Original red boards, gilt lettered spine. Mild reference library ticket to the inside of the front board & front endpaper, small ink stamps to the first few pages. Contents clean & bright throughout. Size: 16 x 26 cms. Category: Norfolk Record Society; Featured Items; Hardback Books; This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Paperback. xiii, 160pp. 22cm x 13.5cm. Frontis. 61 half-tone illustrations from photographs specially taken for and by the author. Some wear to covers. A little spotting to end-papers. A nice clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Contemporary half black morocco and marbled boards, gilt-stamped lettering in second spine compartment (5 raised bands); 8vo (157 x 196 mm); contains illustrated title-page, TOC, and 108 numbered plates (on the verso), with facing text in English (recto of preceding leaf). Written and illustrated entirely by hand, and 40 of the plates hand-colored, this meticulous volume replicates the Gand 1835-1840 first edition of Felix de Vigne's "Vade-mecum du peintre, ou, Recueil de costumes du moyen-âge, pour servir à l'histoire de la Belgique et pays circonvoisins." Boards and spine scuffed; title-page a little loose; occasional faint browning or dusty finger-smudge. In one instance, paint has oxidized, turning one figure's flesh a spotty grey. Bookplate and signature of John Brandard on front paste-down; and bookplate of noted antiquarian Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence on rear paste-down. Brandard has also signed the final leaf, with a calligraphic drawing of a bird, and "Finis." John Brandard (England, 1812-1863) was a lithographic artist, and long a partner of the printers M. and N. Hanhart, for whom he produced designs for Louis-Antoine Jullien, and hundreds of illustrated title-pages for sheet music. He brought the chromolithograph, which had been first used in connection with music in 1841, to an incredibly high level of sophistication, using half a dozen or more stones to produce a single image, printed on high quality paper. He employed two full-time assistants, allowing him to produce artwork quickly and prolifically, mainly concentrating on ballet and opera. His portraits of dancers were admired by Degas. The skill with which this volume is carried out suggests that it's the work of Brandard himself -- penmanship is tidy and legible, and the drawings and coloring capture fine details. A laid-in letter from 1889 discusses armour, as does a pencilled note laid-in at plate 54, so this volume was once carefully studied.