Eric Ravilious Illustrator (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 32 pages. 7.09x8.82x0.14 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. None. Original contribution by Knox, etc. Same format as first printing. In Mylar jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 96 pages. 10.51x7.65x0.60 inches. In Stock. Ravilious, Eric (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two volumes, first editions with the wood engravings of Ravilious. Large octavo. Buckram boards. Bookplate of previous owner to pastedowns. The whole in very good condition. Clean and tight. Pages Vol. I, 311 and vol. II, 356. Folding map to rear of volume 2, being Selborne in 1842.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. Very Good dust jacket. First Trade Edition. 8vo.; in publisher's red cloth binding, slightly cocked; with the uncommon dustjacket with illustration by Eric Ravilious; the dustjacket has not been price-clipped; is has a small chip and an internal closed tear to the spine; top corner of the front panel with residue of a long-gone sticker; the endpapers are toned but there are no ownership or other marks in the book; with 34 woodcut illustrations, decorations and vignettes by Ravilious, three of which are full page, including the frontispiece. ~~Desert recounts the struggles of Malchus, a wealthy Alexandrian who becomes a hermit, is a novel by the prolific writer and poet Martin Armstrong. Ravilious of course was one of the finest of the 20th century woodcut illustrators.~~. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket.…

Condition: Fine. Hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covers, gilt stamped title lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Printed in Bembo type, with the title page in red and black and the wood engravings printed in various colours on Fourdrinier paper. In Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [British]. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Hardcover in pictorial brick toned cloth; 3/4 caramel morocco with gilt titles. First limited (# 267 of only 275 copies) Eric Ravilious illustrated edition. Book is in near fine condition, generally crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Minor wear and scuffing present. Ravilious' splendid wood engravings throughout. considered some of his best work. Laid in is a full page loose leaf advertisement. 'Golden Cockerel Books for the Spring'. 4to. 77 pp. Large item--will require additional postage if shipped outside the U. S.There is a loose flyer 'Golden Cockerel Books for the Spring' enclosed.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…

Engravings by Ravilious, printed in black. One of 375 numbered copies. 8vo. Original half cloth with decorative hand-made paper boards, dust jacket. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Golden Cockerel Press.  A near-fine, uncut and unopened copy. Dust jacket with some smudges and browning.  Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell's Complete Works published 1997-8.…

Condition: Near fine. Limited Edition. 8vo, 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 in. (240 x 160 mm); (vi) + 46 + (vi) wood-engraved illustrations by Eric Ravilious, slight offsetting to title, original morocco-backed marbled boards, spine rubbed with some fading but binding tight and square; t.e.g, rest uncut; pages bright and crisp. Colophon ends with the words: "God save the King !" and bears the ink signature of the author and the number 115 (out of a limited first edition of 212 on hand-made paper; a further 1000 copies were printed on machine-made paper, unsigned and un-numbered). [Chanticleer 105]. This is a charming little volume by the Golden Cockerel Press, printed to mark the Silver Jubilee of King George V in May 1935 and bears a superb wood-engraved frontispiece, a head-piece illustrating transport and progress (steam train crossing a viaduct, a biplane, windmills) and fifteen further decorative wood-engraved vignettes by Eric Ravilious (1903 - 1942) the famed engraver, water-colorist and muralist who depicted war scenes while he was assigned to the Admiralty during W.W. II. He was lost in action in Iceland in 1942. This is one of three books illustrated by Ravilious for the Golden Cockerel Press. Founded by Harold Midgely Taylor in 1920 with the object of publishing new works of literary significance by young authors and to print and publish fine editions of books of established worth. When Mr. Taylor retired in 1924 it was purchased by Robert Gibbings, known as an illustrator and woodcutter (Tomkinson, p .93) "Golden Cockerel books are amongst the most popular and desirable private press items." (Ransom p. 106). Eric Ravilious (illustrator).…