E J Detmold Illus (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Quarto in blue cloth with gilt titles and ornament; ix, 323 pages; 8 color plates, incl. frontis.; 23 cm. Nice coy. Lovely color plates. Birds, Ornithology, Natural History, Nature Writing. A very good(+) copy with a tight binding and clean text block, with minor weathering to exterior. Please…

First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); original grey pictorial cloth embossed in gilt; ix,[1],274pp.; color frontispiece & 7 plates. Boards a bit dust-soiled, extremities rubbed with small losses at corners, spine toned; contents about fine. Very Good overall. "This book is more than a mere reprint of Birds in a Village published in 189…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. 1936, 4th printing of the 'new' edition. Thick Quarto. 271pp. Illustrated with the tipped-in colour plates. Publisher's green cloth, decorative gilt titles. A little marked and some light rubbing. In the printed dust jacket, some edge and surface wear. Fo…

Condition: Good. 120, 19 col plates. . HB. 4to (280x233mm), orig. cloth spine, paper covered boards, slightly marked, circular pictorial onlay to front board. Endpapers browned and lightly foxed. Small contemporary gift inscription to endpaper. Good. Reprint (originally published 1912). A charming book on the chicks and juvenile…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto hardcovber in paper covered boards lettered in gilt and with round tipped on color illustration of a fawn, over white cloth spine also lettered in gilt. 104 pp. With eeven full page plates featuring tipped on color image of each animal features, surrounded by gilt border. A…

120 pp. With a frontispiece and 18 mounted color plates by E. J. Detmold (complete). Folio, publisher's cloth-backed lettered boards with circular color illustration applied on front panel. The frontispiece was formerly detached, with some shallow wear to the frontispiece fore-edge and a 1/4" chip; gift inscription in ink at the…

Condition: Very Good. vii, 235, 13 mounted col plates, decorative roundels to endpapers and title page. . HB. 4to (280x230mm), orig. dec. cream cloth, lightly bumped to corner of rear board, edges uncut. Light foxing to edges of text block. Very good.British Bee Books, 422. Translated by Alfred Sutro. Re-set illustrated edition,…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Henry Frowde & Stoughton, (n.d., but c. 1912). First edition (pp. 120). Large quarto (29 cm) in pictorial paper over boards, nineteen fine colour plates depicting baby birds laid down on heavy card. Florence Dugdale (1879- 1837) was Thomas Hardy's second wife; Hardy was a con…

First edition, pairing Detmold's botanical illustrations with Maeterlinck's nature essays. "Detmold's finest plates are those produced for The Fables of Aesop (1909), The Life of the Bee (1911), and Hours of Gladness (1912), the latter with texts after Maurice Maeterlinck, the Belgian poet, naturalist and mystic. A painting of c…

First Detmold edition of the Nobel laureate's 1901 classic. Quarto. With 13 mounted colour plates. With publisher's promotional bookmark loosely inserted. Original vellum, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in gilt, rear cover and pastedowns with bee roundel in gilt and black, edges uncut. Vellum soiled, spine toned an…

First Detmold edition, signed limited issue, number 32 of 750 copies signed by the artist. The texts are taken from translated versions by Sir Roger L'Estrange and Rev. G. F. Townsend. Contemporary reviews recognized the fine work of the artist coupled with a high standard of book production. The Graphic stated that "the drawing…