Charles E Brock Illustrator (20 results)

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 nice 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.

Condition: Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket No. 32 - Kings Treasuries of Literature series. Owner's name on endpage. (Ebenezer Scrooge).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Charles E. Brock, Illustrator (illustrator). 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 and 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. 254pp illus b/w sm 8vo dec red cloth, gilt Minor rubbing. This is the 1934 printing.

First 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. 3 Kg.

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 5ĵ''. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Charles E. Brock, Illustrator (illustrator). 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 page 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. Signed by Author(s).

First 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.

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 tailpieces 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.

Original Cloth Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.

A very good two volume set in matching full leather bindings by Bumpus. 8vo. Vol. I. : pp.xii/pp.254 ; Vol. II. : pp.xxii/pp.294. Tan calf with gilt filet border, edges lightly rubbed. Each spine with 5 raised bands, gilt decorated compartments, and leather title; volume number and date labels. All page edges bright gilt. Tan leather turn-ins. Green end papers. Engraved armorial bookplate to the verso of each front board for "Sir Gervase Beckett Baronet" and signed with the initials: "W.P.B." Binder's stamp to the verso of each front endpaper: "J & E Bumpus Ltd. 380 Oxford Street W." Clean text and illustrations throughout. VG. ** "Sir William Gervase Beckett, 1st Baronet (born William Gervase Beckett-Denison; 14 January 1866 24 August 1937) was a British banker and Conservative politician. He married Mabel Theresa Duncombe (18771913) and they had four daughters, one of whom married Anthony Eden, a British Prime Minister. His wife died in 1913 and he married again so, at the age of 52 years, he had a son." - See WPB Bookplates *** The company J. & E. Bumpus of Oxford Street in London, Booksellers to Queen Victoria, was a notable publisher of personal bookplates. Many of their designs from 1896 to about 1928 were engraved at the lower margin with the initials of William Phillips Barrett (1861-1938), a New Zealander by birth, who was the Manager of Bumpus's shop. Many designs of bookplates dated up to and including 1908 were signed ' W.P.B.'. By adding his initials to some 600 bookplates, he claimed the design when, in fact, most of them were designed by at least five skilled engravers: John Augustus Charles Harrison (1872-1954), Robert Osmond (1874-1959), Charles Brooke Bird (1856-1916), John Edward Syson (1856-1929) and George Ernest Vize (1865-1943). Barrett's job was to persuade clients to order a bookplate to be engraved and then printed by Bumpus, so he was a salesman." - See WPB Bookplates.

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 thistles, roses, hearts and scrolls decorations, gilt edges, overall very good. An attractive edition of this charmingly illustrated insight into English life in the 19th century.

First 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 illustrated insight into Irish life in the 19th century.

Three 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.

Cloth. Condition: Good-. The complete novels in six volumes. FIRST THUS. 8vos, title pages lettered and decorated in blue and red; 16 colour plates, illustrated by Charles E. Brock, to each volume. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt (but faded), blind stamped devices and ruling to upper boards. A shabby set: all volumes with spines sunned and cocked, spine ends frayed, boards rubbed, gently soiled and bumped, some boards bowed. P&P only: long split to joint of bottom board. Persuasion only: top edge of bottom board nibbled. All volumes: shaken, endpapers toned, scatters of fox spots, Edinburgh Merchant Company Schools/ George Watson's Ladies' College gilt label to ffep of P&P, inscribed to Brodie K. Johnston for "Superiority in Gymnastics," with hand-written award inscriptions to subsequent ffeps. MP only: "John Cabell Johnston, 9 Lauderdale Street, Edinburgh" inscribed in pencil to rear pastedown. Emma only: liquid staining to rear pastedown. NA & P only: some small losses to margins. Else, clean and bright. Good- to fair: a binder's set. A very well-handled set of the 1922 Dent edition of the Novels of Jane Austen, complete in six volumes, with a pleasing Scottish educational provenance: awarded in 1922-23 to Brodie K. Johnston for "Superiority in Gymnastics, Special Kirk Mackie Prize," by Edinburgh Merchant Company Schools/ George Watson's Ladies' College and its formidable headmistress, Charlotte Ainslie. George Watson's Ladies' College was founded in George Square, Edinburgh in 1871. A former pupil, Charlotte E. Ainslie, LLA (1863-1960) was appointed Headmistress in 1902, becoming the first woman to lead the school and indeed "any prestigious Scottish secondary school" (ODNB). A talented linguist and lecturer in psychology and education, a dedicated school leader and educationalist, she "was regarded as one of the leading Scottish experts on girls' education" (ibid). The University of Edinburgh conferred a Doctorate of Laws on Ainslie in 1926, the year she retired, and in 1929 she received an OBE for services to education.

First 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.

Charles 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 text 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.

Condition: 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 Charles 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.

Condition: Near Fine. Fifth edition. Two volumes bound in one, small octavo (180 x 105 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 Charles E. Brock. Bound ca. 1905 by Cedric Chivers (stamp-signed in gilt on rear lower turn-in). Bound in handsome green morocco with decorative gilt floral patterns on the front board encircling a "vellucent" title label. Spine with gilt titles and art nouveau floral pattern. All edges gilt, pale green end papers. Spine toned, previous owner's gift inscription on the first blank, otherwise a fine copy overall. 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. Near Fine.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. Language: English. Language: English. Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners. The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair. This masterpiece has been meticulously reprinted in 2025, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1901. The contents of this book are presented in classic black and white. Its durability is ensured through a meticulous sewing binding technique, enhancing its longevity. Imprinted on top-tier quality paper. A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Due to the vintage nature of these books, every page has been manually restored for legibility. However, in certain instances, occasional blurriness, missing segments, or faint black spots might persist. We sincerely hope for your understanding of the challenges we faced with these books. Recognizing their significance for readers seeking insight into our historical treasure, we've diligently restored and reissued them. Our intention is to offer this valuable resource once again. We eagerly await your feedback, hoping that you'll find it appealing and will generously share your thoughts and recommendations. Lang: - English, Vol:- Volume v.2, Pages:- 258, Print on Demand. If it is a multi-volume set, then it is only a single volume. We are specialised in Customisation of books, if you wish to opt different color leather binding, you may contact us. This service is chargeable. Product Disclaimer: Kindly be informed that, owing to the inherent nature of leather as a natural material, minor discolorations or textural variations may be perceptible. Explore the FOLIO EDITION (12x19 Inches): Available Upon Request. Volume v.2 258 258.