Gervase Markham Colonel Robert Venables (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Limited Edition. Reprint of two17th century books on angling. Limited edition of 650 copies, of which this is number 302. Wide 8vo. 111 pages. With dust jacket. Tan paper-covered boards quarter bound in vellum. Dust jacket soiled; torn in several places, mainly on upper edge. Boards with light edgewear; faintly marked in places; a few light bumps on fore edge of front board. Endpapers foxed; otherwise pages clean. Binding firm.

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Limited Edition. hardback, parchment backstrip lettered gilt, pale brown paper covered boards, top edge gilt, an ex-library copy with stamps but no labels, a good tightly bound copy in a pictorial age-toned dust wrapper that has loss at head of spine and is now protected in a non-adhesive clear film sleeve, Limited edition of just 650 copies of which this is numbered 490, b&w illustrations, xxiii + 111 pp.

hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. hardback, parchment backstrip lettered gilt, pale brown paper covered boards, top edge gilt, a very good tightly bound copy in a pictorial age-toned dust wrapper that has two small holes to lower joint but o/w is very well preserved and is now protected in a non-adhesive clear film sleeve, text clean and unmarked, Limited edition of just 650 copies of which this is numbered 220, b&w illustrations, xxiii + 111 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarter vellum gilt with tan paper-covered boards, square 8vo., xxiii, 111, (1) pages. One of 650 numbered copies printed from Monotype Cochin types. Trimmed front panel of the DW loosely inserted. A near fine copy with negligible soil and wear, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited Edition; First Printing. Very Good Limited Edition (stated; 566 of 650) hardcover in Fair dustjacket. Quarter parchment in limp vellum boards, bumped to spine ends and upper corners. Some light soiling and foxing to backstrip. Top edge gilt. Internally, some shadow and light foxing to prelims. No writing or stamps. Clean, bright pages. Unclipped dustjacket soiled with chipping to extremities with small losses - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 111 pages.

Vellum. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A limited edition copy of these historic works on the art of angling, bound in quarter vellum. Limited edition, number 198 of 650 copies printed on handmade paper.Bound in quarter vellum with paper-covered boards. This work is comprised of two facsimiles bound into one, including 'The Pleasures of Princes or Good Mens Recreations' by Gervase Markham, and 'The Experienced Angler' By Colonel Robert Venables. These works were originally published in 1614 and 1662. With a preface by Horace Hutchinson. Illustrated with vignettes of fish species to 'The Experienced Angler'. In quarter vellum binding with paper-covered boards. Externally, very smart, with light marking to the boards and vellum, with the occasional spot. Spotting to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean, with the odd spot to the first and last pages. Very Good Indeed. book.

Full limp vellum with gilt spine titles. Fine with a trace of handling discoloration to spine and pale foxing confined to endpapers. Vellum splays somewhat when ties opened. Deluxe edition, copy number 7 of 50 deluxe copies on handmade paper bound in full limp vellum with ribbon ties.