Crombie Charles Illustrator (3 results)
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Published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, and Kent, London, Perrier, nd.
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- First Edition
Seller: Dennys, Sanders & Greene, Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United KingdomDennys, Sanders & Greene
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Condition: Used
£ 220.00
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Add to basketHardcover. First Edition. Probably published in 1905 or 1906. As well as for motoring, Crombie did illustrated books in the same format for Perrier on the similarly humourous laws of golf and cricket. He also contributed illustrations to the major newspapers of the day. 12 large coloured plates of great character with captions.…Final page is a full page ad for Perrier and each page has an ad for Perrier on the back. Title page has a small closed tear in margin. Boards worn and marked with some of the outer paper missing around the edges, especially on the rear, and front bottom corner very thin. Head and foot of spine fraying. Hinges parted so the text block is separated from the covers.
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Published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., London Perrier water company,
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- First Edition
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.Bluff Park Rare Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. HARDBACK NODustjacket ISSUED ,UNDATED EARLY ,First Edition. VG/GOOD, NOJACKET, In original OBLONG paper covered boards. In GOOD condition with some minor wear and tear externally but internally a very good condition with FOXING. Oblong 4to Grey Boards TITLED IN RED & BLACK with… wear edges & tears wear Along Cvr Spine , TEARS chips CVR SPINE AREA Oversized 14 3/4 X 10 3/4 IN. , Charles E Crombie, of whom little appears to be known, is now best remembered for the 3 books of cartoons he drew for the Perrier water company, based on texts from the The Laws of Cricket, Golf and Motoring. CHAS. or Charles CROMBIE (illustrator).
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Published by Greening & Co., Ltd. Arranged and printed by Bemrose & Sons Limited, London
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.White Fox Rare Books and Antiques, ABAA/ILAB
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. With very scarce original dust jacket! Oblong 4to. 29 by 45 cm. Unpaginated, 27 pages -- after title page, two or four pages per nursery rhyme, one with the verse, the facing page, with the peerless Crombie color illustration, and two pages of promotion for Brown & Polson's flour. The nursery rhymes are amo…ng the most familiar: Simple Simon, of course, The Queen of Hearts, Little Jack Horner, Little Tom Tucker, Pat-a-Cake, Georgie Porgie, King Pippin's Hall, Girls and Boys Come Out to Play, and Hot-Cross Buns. The Crombie illustrations are within the aesthetic movement tradition, or Queen Anne-style, as also associated with Walter Crane or more loosely, William Morris or the contemporary of Crombie, Maxfield Parrish. They generally have a Medievalist feel to them, as is very appropriate with an ancient tradition stretching back to a vague mythical past of kings, queens, knights and pages as so many nursery rhymes do, although a few of the illustrations evoke the more recent Georgian or Regency past. The book is unusual inasmuch as it appears to have been issued by a food processing company as a promotion of sorts -- we do not think the ad in the back is an incidental insert. As evidence of this is that Brown & Polson held the copyright to the illustrations -- they all have fine lettered captions underneath to this effect. While we have come across this book from time to time, we have never seen the dust jacket before! Ours is also overall a beautiful copy, exception some soiling on the cloth spine, mostly from the rusting of the staples used in binding the text block seeping through, and two tiny pinprick holes on the rear of this cloth strip. The title page has light foxing; otherwise, we would say pristine. The dust jacket is dampstained and chipped but nonetheless essentially intact. Crombie was a commercial and editorial artist, best known today for his illustrations for "The Rules of Golf" and its sequel, "The Rules of Cricket".
