Crawhall Editor (7 results)

A Collection of Right Merrie Garlands for North Country Anglers 8" x 5", original quarter leather / red cloth covers, gilt titles on dark green leather spine, gilt ruled cover division, marbled eps, teg, 314 pages incl. publishers ads, illustrated with sketches and woodcut prints, Thomas Welsby's copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown, slight damage to ffep, light foxing throughout, cloth cover heavily flecked, with some water staining. 1864 first edition, fishermen's songs from 1820 - 1864, very good condition.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1864). 1864 1st edition. 8vo (130 x 200mm). Ppxvi,312 + 2pp ads. B/w woodcuts and illustrations, musical notations. Plain green cloth library binding. Ex-library copy in a servicable plain library binding. Library bookplate, pages trimmed and one section loose, but a good strong serviceable reading copy. A collection of songs originally issued by the Newcastle-on-Tyne Typographical Society, at first issued separately and afterwards collectively in several editions. The original manuscripts, related correspondence and corrected proofs were puchased by Crawhall and collated into this single volume. An advert for the large paper edition is printed opposite the title-page which often leads to people confusing this, the standard edition, as being the large paper. The spine of the book carries the title Newcastle Fishers' Garlands. .

Cloth. Condition: Good/Very Good. Internally very good , signature (dated 1868) on first blank , binding firm , cover sound with slight bubbling and a little fading towards the tops of the boards . Pics available Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

7.75" x 5" Quarter Leather Fine A handsome rebinding in the style of the original limited edition of fifty copies, quarter polished tan calf/crimson buckram, cream eps, gilt ruled cover division, gilt borders and titles to spine, pp. (i-vii) viii-xv, 1-312 plus 2pp. publishers ads.

Later boards. With musical illustrations. (illustrator). 19x13cm, xv, 312 pp. The original collection was first published as "The fisher's garland for 1821[-1845]", & later reissued in 1836 & 1845 (?) as "A collection of right merrie garlands for North country anglers"; the principal contributors were Robert Roxby, Thomas Doubleday; William Gill Thompson & William Andrew Chatto. Later [20th century] binder's boards. Bookplate. VG.

ALL UK PARCELS SENT TRACKED! ALL OVERSEAS PARCELS SENT AIRMAIL, TRACKED! (S/hand, Hardcover, 1864). 1864 1st edition - large paper issue. 4to (200 x 265mm). Illustrated with 20 etched plates mounted on India paper (3 of them hand-coloured), an engraved portrait of Thomas Bewick, and wood-cuts in the text, 14 of them hand-coloured. Red roan-backed cloth, spine titled in gilt, top edge gilt. Numbered with a small blue stamp within a circle in the centre of the half-title verso. Minor tanning, minor use & stains to cloth. A very clean copy of the true large paper edition in the original binding. No. 4 of an edition of only fifty copies. Ownership signature of Thomas Gow, Cambs, 1864. Very scarce. A collection of songs originally issued by the Newcastle-on-Tyne Typographical Society, at first issued separately and afterwards collectively in several editions. The original manuscripts, related correspondence and corrected proofs were puchased by Crawhall and collated into this single volume. The spine of the book carries the title Newcastle Fishers' Garlands. .

Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION. Number 21 of 50 large-paper copies of the FIRST EDITION. Quarto. xv, 312 pp. Etched plates on India paper and mounted, woodcut and wood engraved illustrations and ornaments, a few of which are hand-coloured. Tissue guards. Book Condition: Near Fine. Modern green half-morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to spine and gilt angling motifs to compartments. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. A little light foxing mainly to final leaves otherwise a fine copy. Rare, only 50 copies of the large paper edition were printed. The common standard paper edition is often confused with the limited edition as it contains an advertisement leaf for the limited edition opposite the title page.