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Yeoman of the Guard: Or, The Merryman and His Maid
W.S. Gilbert; Illustrator - W. Russell Flint; Illustrator - Charles E. Brock
Language: English
Published by Godfrey Cave Associates [in association with Macmillan], 1979
- Hardcover
Seller: Gadzooks! Books!, Lompoc, CA, U.S.A.Gadzooks! Books!
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. GIFT QUALITY 1979 U.K. hardcover with dust jacket protected by a Brodart jacket cover. UNREAD COPY is clean and bright inside and out with sharp edges and corners and no tears. This is NOT an ex-library book. NOT corner-clipped (retains the original UK cover price on the front jacket flap). A very n…ice copy! 1979 facsimile reprint of the 1929 Macmillan original. W.S. Gilbert's stage play, interspersed with both black-and-white and colour illustrations by W. Russell Flint and Charles E. Brock.
A Christmas Carol
Dickens, Charles (Author); Brock, C.E. (Illustrator); Couch, Sir A.T. Quiller (Editor)
Published by J.M. Dent & Sons
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.Wonder Book
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket No. 32 - Kings Treasuries of Literature series. Owner's name on endpage. (Ebenezer Scrooge).
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Language: English
Published by Macmillan Children's Books, 1986
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Seller: Cambridge Recycled Books, Cambridge, United KingdomCambridge Recycled Books
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Creasing to spine. Tanning to page margins. Same day dispatch (Mon- Fri) from the UK if ordered by 1pm.
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Published by Doubleday Page, Garden City, New York, 1913
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.Old Scrolls Book Shop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dustjacket. First Edition. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page, 1913. First Edition . Very Good+/no dust jacket . Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Very clean book - green cloth boards with gold stamped lettering on cover and spine. Very slight surface wear to spine corners. Binding is tight a…nd square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with small previous owner inscription on front free endpaper. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock, including lovely frontispiece with clean tissue guard, decorated title page, three additional full-page illustrations. Charles E. Brock, Illustrator (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston MA, 1901
- Hardcover
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. Original green gilt flower motif-decorated cloth with gilt-decorated spine and gilt top foreedge. An unusually well preserved copy in gleaming gilt. Issued separately as part of a three-volume series.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1899
- Hardcover
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.Books End Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 254pp illus b/w sm 8vo dec red cloth, gilt Minor rubbing. This is the 1934 printing.
Published by Blackie, London, 1111
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Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United KingdomVictoria Bookshop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition thus. 514 Pages. 4 Sepia Plates. No Date, H.M. Brock D/W. Book.
Language: English
Published by Doubleday Page, 1911
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Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. All Brock plates present. A tight copy, unmarked and whole. Out of print and uncommon.
Language: English
Published by Cuneo Press, Chicago, 1942
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Bibliodisia Books, Caxton Club
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Very good- (very lightest top edge stain). First in the annual Cuneo Press Christmas Book series, with 42 illustrations by Caldecott on quality Linweave paper. Limited to 1000 copies, this volume includes Mr. Pickwick's Christmas and other classic selections. A very presentab…le copy in the red leather labels. Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott illus. First edition. Binding is Cloth Bds.
Language: English
Published by Franklin Library, 1974
- Hardcover
Seller: West Coast Bookseller, Moorpark, CA, U.S.A.West Coast Bookseller
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The Hidden Chalice
Plunket, Ierne L. [Frontispiece by C. E. Brock] Charles Edmund Brock (5 February 1870 - 28 February 1938) was a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator, who signed most of his work C. E. Brock].
Published by Published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Northumberland Avenue, London circa . 1924., 1924
- Hardcover
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United KingdomLittle Stour Books PBFA Member
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated russet cloth covers, orange title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains [xvi] 251 printed pages of text + 16 page catalogue with colour frontispiece. Prize plate dated 1924, sporadic foxing and in Very Good…condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR GIRLS.
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Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1900
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Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.Old Scrolls Book Shop
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dustjacket. Holiday Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900. Holiday Edition. Very Good+/no dustjacket . Charles E. Brock, Illustrator. Two matching volumes, one of them (Volume II) inscribed and signed by author Kate Douglas Wiggin. VOLUME I: Penelope's English Experiences. Date on title pag…e MDCCCC (1900). Olive green cloth decorated and lettered in gold on cover and spine, blind-stamped decorative border on rear board. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Light wear to spine corners. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard. Fifty-three illustrations by Charles E. Brock. 176 pages. VOLUME II - Penelope's Progress - Being Such extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton as relate to her Experiences in Scotland. Olive green cloth boards with gold decoration and lettering on cover and spine. Spots of wear to spine corners. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt page edges. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper: "Give me Queen's weather, dear Sun, and shine a benison upon my wedding-morn! - Last page - Kate Douglas Wiggin." (She is quoting a line from the last page). Frontis illustration with clean tissue guard; fifty-five illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Date on title page MDCCCCI (1901). 301 pages. Charles E. Brock, Illustrator (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).
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Published by London : Harrap, 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: xx, 687 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : color plates ; 24 cm. Genres: Fiction. Illustrated text.…1 Kg.
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Published by Gay and Bird, London, 1908
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Seller: Literary Cat Books, Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, United KingdomLiterary Cat Books
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Add to basketOriginal Cloth Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Edition; Second Impression. Some fading to front cover. Corners mildly scuffed with head & tail of spine gently bumped. Small tear on hinge-side end-papers. Some foxing & browning. Crease on page 15. Small hinge crack (3.5 cm) on page 81. Some crease & presaure…on stitched hinges.; [Association Copy] Signed by author with dedication to Robert Loraine reading "To Rpobert Loraine, Wishing that he might like my work half as much as I like his! Kate Douglas Wiggin (Mrs George Riggs) London, After "Cyrano" Tuesday Sept. 2nd 1919" (Gifted by the author to Robert Loraine after his performace as Cyrano in Cyrano de Bergerac a few years before her death) Dedication & signature verified by noted scholar on the subject Dr. Rowena Edlin-White. Originalgreen cloth boards with ornate blind-stamped cover depicting elaborate floral & scroll work bordered by Scottish thistles. Blind-stamped design continues on spine, with gilt lettering. Back cover has blind-stamped floral design. Illustrations throughout including frontispiece, chapter head-pieces &; 301 pages.
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Published by London : Harrap, 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: xx, 687 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : color plates ; 24 cm. Genres: Fiction. Illustrated text.…1 Kg.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy [6]
Burnett, Frances Hodgson [1849-1924] Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock (5 February 1870 - 28 February 1938) was a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator, who signed most of his work C. E. Brock.
Published by Published by Frederick Warne & Co., London circa . London circa 1930., 1930
- Hardcover
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United KingdomLittle Stour Books PBFA Member
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original rich scarlet cloth covers, black title, author lettering and small illustrations to the spine and to the upper panel, illustrated end papers. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains [xvi] 310 printed pages of text with colour plates, monochrome illustrations, and headers and tailp…ieces throughout. Neat ink name to the front free end paper dated 1937, very light foxing to the closed page edges, spin not faded, corners sharp and pointed and in very Good clean and fresh condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Published by Franklin Library, 1974
- Hardcover
Seller: GridFreed, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.GridFreed
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Published by Franklin Library, 1974
- Hardcover
Seller: GridFreed, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.GridFreed
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Published by Macmillan., London, 1980
- Hardcover
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, CanadaAlexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: A near fine example. Full maroon cloth boards. Pictorial pasted and free endpapers. With publisher?s dust jacket, clipped, in Mylar., Size : 8vo.(210 x 150 mm), Illustrated in colour. , 212 pp.
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Published by London ; Edinburgh : T.C. & E.C. Jack : T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1928
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, IrelandMW Books Ltd.
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Poor copy bound in the original gilt decorated cloth. Spine bands worn with wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; xvi, 557 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Children's poetry. Genres; Anthologies - Engla…nd - 1928. Children's books - England - 1928. Cloth case bindings - England - 1928. Fiction. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
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Published by London ; Edinburgh : T.C. & E.C. Jack : T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1928
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- First Edition
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.MW Books
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. Poor copy bound in the original gilt decorated cloth. Spine bands worn with wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; xvi, 557 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Children's poetry. Genres; Anthologies - Engla…nd - 1928. Children's books - England - 1928. Cloth case bindings - England - 1928. Fiction. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
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Published by London Gay and Bird, 1901
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Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United KingdomShapero Rare Books
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Add to basketIllustrated edition; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by C.E. Brock, 16pp. advertisements, some foxing to early leaves; publisher's green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt with thistles, roses, hearts and scrolls decorations, gilt edges, overall very good. An attractive edition of this charmingly illustrated insight into Engl…ish life in the 19th century.
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Published by London Gay and Bird, 1902
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- First Edition
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United KingdomShapero Rare Books
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Add to basketFirst illustrated edition; 8vo; frontispiece and illustrations by C.E. Brock, 16pp. advertisements, some foxing to early leaves; publisher's green cloth elaborately blocked in gilt with shamrocks, hearts and scrolls decorations, gilt edges, hinges pulling slightly, overall very good. An attractive edition of this charmingly illu…strated insight into Irish life in the 19th century.
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Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1930
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Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerThree Quarters Leather. Condition: Very Good binding. Large 8vo. three quarter burgundy morocco over burgundy cloth; xx, 687 pages, with 16 full page color plates by Brock; there is a previous owner gift inscription on the first blank leaf.~~There is minor wear to the morocco at the bottom of the spine as well as to the corners;… a rubbed spot is on the upper board, near the top corner; overall, a handsome copy. Very Good binding.
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Published by The Sphere & The Tatler, London, 1906
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.Heartwood Books and Art
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Printers' Pie 1906-1911 (Magazine) Clothbound Three-inch closed tear to bottom of three pages :illus opposite page 32, and the next two illustration pages (numbered 1, 2, 3). A very firm sound copy otherwise. Dampstain spotting to the cloth binding. A Festival Souvenir of the Printers…Pension, Almshouse and Orphan Asylum Corporation, 1906 [-1911]. Full brown cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Oversize, heavy book. 11 x 9 inches. 5.5 lbs. Various Writers(Illustrator) H. M. Brock(Illustrator) Charles Dana Gibson(Illustrator) W. Hugh Spottiswoodle(Introduction) (illustrator). BOOK.
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The Christmas Books. Being; A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life and The Haunted Man
DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870), [BROCK, Charles E., illustrator]
Published by London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1905-1907, 1907
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketFirst Edition. [English literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS, Illustrations in colour by Charles Brock. Five volumes, octavo (18 x 12 x 15cm). Bound in full festive cranberry red morocco with holly green labels, raised bands, gilt rules, cloth sides, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed in a bespoke fleece-lined cloth slip-case.… Internally clean, exterior unmarked. A fine set in a handsome recent leather binding. An attractive set of these classic seasonal tales, splendidly illustrated and presented.
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Published by Cambridge, 28. März 1920., 1920
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Seller: Kotte Autographs GmbH, Roßhaupten, GermanyKotte Autographs GmbH
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Add to basket1 S. 8vo. An den Maler, Kunstautor und Sekretär der Society of Graphic Arts Frank L. Emmanuel (18651948): I have to thank for the Provisional Committee of the Society of Graphic Art for its invitation to me to become an original member of the Society. I shall be very happy to join what seems to me to promise to be a very useful…society []". Auf Briefpapier mit gepr. Adresse.
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Published by London: WellsGardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., 1905, 1905
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Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. The Final Book in the Bastable Family Adventure Series NESBIT, Edith. Oswald Bastable and Others. Illustrated by Charles Brock and H.R. Millar. London: WellsGardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., [1905]. First edition of the final book in Nesbit's much-loved Bastable family cycle., First state with number on page 96 transpo…sed as 69. Octavo (8 x 5 5/8 inches; 203 x 143 mm.). x, 369, [1, blank] pp. [advertisements 9+1 blank]. Frontispiece and vignette title-page included in pagination. Twenty photogravure plates and one line drawing in the text on p. 103. Publisher's maroon cloth, front cover and spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, neat ink inscription on front paste-down, spine faded. A very good copy. This concluding volume finds Oswald Bastable and his siblings once again plotting schemes and adventures in their quest for fortune and glory. Like its predecessors (The Story of the Treasure Seekers, 1899, and The Wouldbegoods, 1901), the tale is narrated in Oswald's spirited first-person voice, with a mixture of comedy, mischief, and moral lessons. The Bastable stories were enormously influential on later children's literature, shaping the voice and structure of C. S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia and Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. Nesbit's blend of realism, imagination, and anarchic humor helped establish the modern adventure story for children, and her Bastable books remain central to her enduring reputation.
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Published by London: J .M. Dent & Co., 1905, 1905
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.David Brass Rare Books, Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerCharles Dickens' Christmas Books Illustrated by Charles Edmund Brock DICKENS, Charles. BROCK, C.E., illustrator. Christmas Books. With Illustrations by C.E. Brock. London: J.M. Dent, 1905-1909. Five small octavo volumes (7 x 4 1/2 inches; 178 x 114 mm.). With a total of forty color plates and forty-eight illustrations in the tex…t by Charles Edmund Brock. Full vellum, covers and spine elaborately decorated and lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Boards slightly splayed, otherwise a fine set. Bookplate of Ernest Gould Williams on front paste-down of first volume. The titles: A Christmas Carol The Haunted Man The Battle of Life The Cricket on the Hearth The Chimes Following the overwhelming success of A Christmas Carol in 1843, Dickens embarked upon the Christmas Books project, seeking to marshal "the Carol philosophy . in order to strike a sledgehammer blow" for England's lower classes. He continued publishing the Christmas Books throughout the 40s, and the stories became mainstays of Dickens's public reading tours of the 1850s and 1860s. C[harles]. E[dmund]. Brock (1870-1938) was a widely published English line artist and book illustrator who earned his first book commission at age twenty. He became a very successful illustrator, best known for his line work, initially in the tradition of Hugh Thomson, but he was also a skilled colorist. Brock's work varied with the sort of story he was illustrating, some of it refined and described as "sensitive to the delicate, teacup-and-saucer primness and feminine outlook of the early Victorian novelists," while other work was "appreciative of the healthy, boisterous, thoroughly English characters," i.e. soldiers, rustics, and "horsey types." Other illustrations were grotesqueries drawn to amuse children looking at or reading storybooks.
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The Essays of Elia [and] The Last Essays of Elia
[Fine Binding - Cedric Chivers] Lamb, Charles; Charles E. Brock (illustrator)
Published by J.M. Dent & Co, London, 1900
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Fine. Second edition. Two volumes bound in one, small octavo (6 15/16 x 4 1/16 inches; 177 x 103 mm.). xxii, 294, [1, imprint], [1, blank];, xii, 254, [1, imprint], [1, blank] pp. Two engraved frontispieces and one hundred and sixty-two black & white illustrations, including decorative head and tailpieces, all by Char…les E. Brock. Bound ca. 1906 in a fine pastel "vellucent" binding by Cedric Chivers (stamp-signed in gilt on rear lower turn-in), with a delicately hand-painted 'Art Nouveau' floral design. This binding is No. LXXXV on page 34 of the Cedric Chivers catalog "Books in Beautiful Bindings." The front cover with three red flowers and a green vine design enclosing the title "The Essays And The Last Essays of Elia. Charles Lamb". Lower cover with a similar design but with just one red flower. Smooth spine similarly decorated and lettered in watercolor and gilt, gilt ruled turn-ins, mottled pale-green liners and end-papers, all edges gilt. Neat ink inscription dated "Xmas 1906" on front blank. A very fine example housed in the original fleece-lined, green cloth slipcase (missing the movable spine panel). Patented in 1898, Chivers's "vellucent" bindings departed from traditional methods of creating hand-painted vellum bindings. The usual approach was to merely bind a book in vellum and then paint on a design, but this is prone to rubbing and flaking and such examples are often now found chipped and deteriorated. In the 18th century Chivers's great predecessor, Edwards of Halifax, painted in reverse on the underside of translucent vellum, thereby providing a layer of protection for the design. His technique was not widely copied and almost vanished with his death, and it was not until the 1890s that Chivers developed his own similar method for protecting the design underneath the vellum itself - the backing sheet of the vellum was painted, which was then covered in vellum which had been shaved to transparency. The vellum was then tooled in gilt, on occasion incorporating additional mother-of-pearl and onlays. The books which Chivers thus bound have always been a favorite of collectors, and usually still present well, the vellum having served its purpose of protecting the design for many decades, as Chivers intended. Chivers was also known to have employed a great many craftswomen at his bindery in Portway: "forty women for folding, sewing, mending, and collating work, and in addition, five more women worked in a separate department, to design, illuminate, and colour vellum for book decoration, and to work on embossed leather. These five were Dorothy Carleton Smyth, Alice Shepherd, Miss J.D. Dunn, Muriel Taylor, and Agatha Gales" (Tidcombe). This book brings together Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia (first published in 1823) with the subsequent volume Last Essays of Elia (issues in 1833). The accessible and conversational essays were published under the pseudonym Elia, inspired by an Italian man that Lamb had known at the South Sea House, and had appeared serially in The London Magazine between 1820 and 1825. Despite his struggles with mental illness, Charles Lamb (1775-1834) would be celebrated for his literary contributions, producing a range of material from essays to poems. Lamb belonged to an active literary circle which included Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Fine.
