Ehninger John W (8 results)

Condition: good. The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 9th brief ed. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. First edition. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. SIGNED by noted artist and photographer John W. Ehninger. Signature rather ghostly, showing up only very lightly on the title page, but can still be mostly made out. Inscribed to a lady (name unreadable, but first name Alice) "with the compliments of John W. Ehninger" and dated Feb. 6 1860. Below is another brief line in the same hand, but which is unreadable. Oversize book in original boards, but with crude but serviceable library repair to spine, and a few other library markings. Foxing to pages, else in good condition. Rare.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, Eight Tipped On Photographed From The Original Drawings, Plates From The Original Drawings By Mathew Brady, 1) Miles Standish And John Alden, 2) The Ambassador, 3) The Council, 4) The War Path, 5) Departure Of The Mayflower, 6) Priscilla And John Alden 7) The Apparition, 8) The Wedding Procession, Copyright Date: 1858 Oblong Sm Quarto, Full Calf Binding, Embossed, Gilt Lettered, Aeg, 1859, Unpaginated, Good Solid Ex Library Copy, Significant Surface Rubbing To Leather Covers And Wear At Extremities, Some Foxing And Smudging At Plates, Pocket Removed At Rear End Papers, Front Inner Hinge Starting Oblong Sm Quarto, Full Calf Binding, Embossed, Gilt Lettered, Aeg. Eight Tipped On Photographed From The Original DrawingsPlates From The Original Drawings By Mathew Brady, 1) Miles Standish And John Alden, 2) The Ambassador, 3) The Council, 4) The War Path, 5) Departure Of The Mayflower, 6) Priscilla And John Alden 7) T (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. Oblong 4to 11" - 13; (BRADY, MATHEW). EHNINGER, JOHN W. Illustrations of Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish. Photographed from the Original Drawings by Brady. First Edition with these illustrations. Original blood-red tooled morocco with gilt lettering at upper cover, a. E. G. , text with eight mounted albumen prints of drawings by Ehninger, all approximately 5 1/4 X 7 1/2" on rectos of plain sheets. Binding strong, darkened at spine and edges with old wear recently treated, text strong with hinges repaired, light marginal dampstain to all leaves but contents clean of foxing, prints in nice condition with good tones; with contemporary engraved bookplate at front pastedown of Erastus Corning (1794-1872) , founder of the New York Central Railroad . Van Haaften 33. A volume frequently overlooked in the history of the photographically illustrated book. This was the first American use of original photographs of illustrations for a literary work. Heretofore, only through various mechanical printing processes could an artist's illustrations be reproduced faithfully, primarily etchings and lithographs, with almost all original illustrations on paper copied by others onto plates for engravings. Unpaginated aprox 40 leaves. Photographic reproductions of paintings had been included in a number of books, but photographs of drawings specific to a particular literary work had not been previously attempted; the hope was a level of reproduction never before achieved. The process was expensive (engravings were far cheaper than hand-mounting photographic prints) , the public yawned, and the concept became an idea before its time, to be resuscitated several decades later when the technique of photoengraving was perfected, enabling publishers to put photographic reproductions of drawings directly onto printing plates. A. E. G.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Unpaginated, about 40 pages. Bound in full brown leather. Blindstamped borders and decorations, with gold lettering on the cover. Leather is quite rubbed, with slight damage at the crown and foot of spine and bumped corners. Back cover is detached but present. 8 original, albumen photographs mounted on thick pages are original photographs taken by Mathew Brady. The photographs are pictures of Ehninger's drawings. There is a page of Longfellow's poem to go with each photograph. Both text and photographs are on the right side of the pages only. Some foxing in the margins. Text block complete, gilt edged. …

Designed and etched by John W. Ehlnnger. 10 Plates. 2 pp. of text. Oblong folio. BAL 10353 Original cloth. Fine, small snag at head of spine Designed and etched by John W. Ehlnnger. 10 Plates. 2 pp. of text. Oblong folio.