Douglas Percy Bliss Illustrator (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1st edition thus. Cloth spined marbled boards, VG. 156pp, b/w frontis, 7 b/w plates, a good copy. Folio Society edition of a book which, it was eventually discovered, was written by Hogg, Shelley's biographer. Originally published in 1813. 450 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. A very good copy in the original dark grey cloth stamped in gilt, top edge black (minor fading and wear). Illustrated with woodcuts by Douglas Percy Bliss.

Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. With plates, illustrations & decorated initials after Douglas Percy Bliss. Former owner's name and address in Porto on front free endpaper. Free endpapers somewhat browned. Many pages uncut. Corners somewhat bumped. Spine, covers & corners slightly worn & somewhat soiled.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 197 pages Original quarter cloth with decorated boards.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. hardback, 4to, 197pp, illustrated, ex-library, label on endpaper, stamps on title verso, contents clean and sound, printed boards and red quarter cloth, spine faded and faint handwritten numbering on spine; Good / no dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A Very Good copy of the first printing in a good jacket (book has bumping to corners, light wear; jacket has a chip to front cover, some closed tears to edges, and some surface soiling).

[8], 197, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 26.5 cm x L 19.75cm. Dust jacket toned and soiled with several chips, tears, wrinkling, and creases; front flap's bottom corner is price-clipped; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Maroon cloth spine with glue repair to surface tear below center; bluish-gray paper boards with light toning; bumping and slender wear to boards' bumped corners. Text block edges toned; deckle fore-edge and bottom edge; some leaves still uncut at their top edges. Foxing/toning strongest to several initial and rear leaves; a few spots of soiling to interior leaves which, overall, remain clean. Binding is firm. With a b/w and a few color illustrations. A nice edition of three illustrated short stories by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. …

[Illustrated Spanish Literature] FIRST BLISS-ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Small quarto (27 x 21cm), pp.[8] 197 [3]. With occasional wood engraved illustrations by Bliss, some printed in colour. Publisher's salmon quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey paper-covered boards, illustrated in brown to upper. All edges untrimmed. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 21s. Light toning and spotting to endpapers. Jacket gently toned, with some light general soiling and wear and chipping to edges. Very good.…

FIRST BLISS EDITION, 39 wood-engraved illustrations, flyleaf inscribed by the illustrator 'yours gratefully Douglas Percy Bliss'. text-block edges slightly toned, pp.[viii], 108, tall 8vo, original quarter black cloth, with orange and grey marbled boards, backstrip gilt-lettered, backstrip slightly faded, board edges rubbed and rear board with a few abrasions, very good. An engaging, signed edition, the illustrations by Bliss, Scottish artist, critc and teacher, capturing the varied tone and spirit of the tales - from the vivid movement of frenzied dancing and fleeing horse-riders to the atmospheric stillness of remote castles and candle-lit corridors - through the highly appropriate medium of wood-engraving. Bliss also contributed wood-engraved illustrations for Border Ballads for the OUP in 1925, but the majority of his engravings and blocks were lost in the Blitz. The stories comprise 'Tam O'Shanter' by Burns, 'Wandering Willie's Tale' by Scott and 'Thrawn Janet' and 'The Tale of Tod Lapraik' by Stevenson, with an introductory essay 'The Devil and his Folk in Scottish Life and Literature' by Bliss himself.…