Browne Halbot Knight Phiz (7 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. A second edition of the first novel in Anthony Trollope's Palliser series. With forty illustrations by Phiz and Marcus Stone. A second edition of the first novel in Anthony Trollope's Palliser series, with forty illustrations by popular Victorian illustrators Hablot Knight Browne and Marcus Stone, collated and complete. Encompassing several literary genres, the six Palliser novels blend family saga, bildungsroman, satire, and picaresque. The present novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage. With a blind stamp to the front endpaper from W. H. Smith & Sons. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Lightly rubbed to the boards and the spine. Very lightly bumped to the tail of the spine, a little more so to the head. The front and rear hinges have failed but the spine has been adhered. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd handling mark. Good. Phiz [Halbot Knight Browne]; Marcus Stone (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Attractively custom bound in 3/4 maroon (reddish) leather binding. Spine has 5 raised bands, gilt tooling and lettering. Maroon decorative custom end papers. Top edge in gilt. Bookplate inside front cover. xvi, 624 pages. Includes 1/2 title page. Engraved frontispiece portrait. Very early edition with the following errors in text: "sister" for "visitor", line 17 p. 123; "latter" for "letter", line 43 p. 160; "flys" for "flies", line 10 p. 245; "visiters" for "visitors", line 2 p. 272, "flys" for "flies" line 10, page 245; "incontestible" for "incontestable" line 22, page 297; "suprise" for "surprise" line 24, page 586. The four plates facing pages 18, 25,38 and 45 are marked Chapman and Hall. A few plates lightly toned. In Near Fine condition. No measurable foxing. Rare in this condition. Photos on Request. One of a set of 13 custom bound early editions of the writings of Dickens. U.S. orders are shipped from N.Y. state.…

First edition. Octavo. Handsomely bound for Henry Sotheran Ltd. in early twentieth-century half brown calf over red-brown linen boards, the spine with five raised bands and titles in gilt. Top edge gilt. Pale marbled endpapers. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece, with tissue-guard, and 39 further engraved plates by Halbot Knight Browne (aka 'Phiz'). Lacking the half-title. A very good copy, the binding square and tight. The contents with spotting to the plates (heavier to some), two plates with minor tears neatly repaired with tissue verso, and a stain to the bottom margin of one plate, are otherwise in good order. The first edition in book form of Dickens's third novel, originally issued in parts between 1838 and 1839, smartly bound for Sotheran's of London during the early twentieth century. …

Leather. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Issued. 1st Edition. First Printing. First edition, first printing. Bound in half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine in six compartments separated by raised bands, gilt title in one compartment, gilt tooling in remainder, gilt borders on covers, all edges marbled. Generously illustrated with 26 steel engravings and 9 wood engravings, all by "Phiz" (Halbot Knight Browne), as well as an engraved portrait of the author on the frontispiece with his facsimile signature. First published in 12 monthly parts in 1842-43, this is the first edition in book form, containing the complete Jack Hinton novel. Other novels were subequently published in the "Our Mess" series, named after other members of the fictional military "Mess" devised by Lever. The author, Charles James Lever (18061872) was an Irish novelist and raconteur, whose novels, according to Anthony Trollope, were just like his conversation. Hablot Knight Browne (1815-1882) was an English illustrator, etcher, and painter best known as the illustrator of the novels of Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth, under the pen-name of Phiz. Former owner's signature on half-title, old bibliographic note ("First Edition") in pencil on fep, edges and covers moderately rubbed and worn, interior hinges starting, all illustrations moderately foxed, else fine; otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. Scarce in this first edition. GOOD. . Our Mess Series. Vol. 1. B&W Drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 396 pp. Illustrated by Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) (illustrator).…

First edition. 8vo. 24 plates after Halbot Knight Browne ("Phiz") and others, including illustrated title. viii, 408 pp. Later 19th-century full blind-tooled maroon morocco, contrasting morocco spine labels, a.e.g.; fine; plates heavily browned and toned. Humorous sketches of London lowlife. Phiz, Halbot Knight Browne (illustrator). …

Watercolour and pencil on coloured paper. Measuring 10 inches x 8 inches. Signed bottom right. Mounted, framed and glazed. A wonderful humorous illustration of people being surprised by a Jack in the Box. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Watercolour and pencil on coloured paper. Measuring 10 inches x 8 inches. Signed bottom right. Mounted, framed and glazed. A wonderful humorous illustration of apple collectors shaking apples from a tree and onto to a hapless collector beneath. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…