Illus J E Millais (7 results)

Condition: Very Good. J.E. Millais (illustrator). 224pp, 5 x 7 inches, Award Board (given to the person who sold me the book).

8vo. pp 569, [3] plates. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. First published in two volumes in 1869. Neat name on the half title page, with very slight wear at spine hinge, and some even fading to covers, otherwise sound, about very good with clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Bound in contemporary 3/4 brown crushed moroccan leather. Green cloth boards. Top edge gilt. 5 raised bands. Gilt spine. Marbled endpapers. Good binding and cover. Front board detached. Wear to extremities. Leather chipped. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

First Edition in book form. Good copies both in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, now somewhat scuffed. Corners slightly bumped, with minor wear to the panel edges. Spine gilt-tooled with raised bands and leather labels, now showing minor peripheral loss; endbands rubbed. Marble endpapers and edges; some foxing to plates, preliminary and final leaves. Plate facing v. 1, p. 17 loose with text blocks otherwise strong. A well-preserved pair overall. Provenance: Bookplates of Edwin Wilkins-Field. Physical description; complete in 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Orley Farm. Inheritance and succession. Mothers and sons. Landowners. Forgers. English literature. 19th century. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

First Edition in book form. Good copies both in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, now somewhat scuffed. Corners slightly bumped, with minor wear to the panel edges. Spine gilt-tooled with raised bands and leather labels, now showing minor peripheral loss; endbands rubbed. Marble endpapers and edges; some foxing to plates, preliminary and final leaves. Plate facing v. 1, p. 17 loose with text blocks otherwise strong. A well-preserved pair overall. Provenance: Bookplates of Edwin Wilkins-Field. Physical description; complete in 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm. Subjects; Orley Farm. Inheritance and succession. Mothers and sons. Landowners. Forgers. English literature. 19th century. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Bound in half magenta leather, with marbled boards with gilt; page top edge gilt; raised bands on spine; gilt lettering & rules. Illustrations by J.E Millais. Both volumes with half-titles. Vol.1 bound with front cover of Part II (April) of the part-work, with front cover of Part XI (January) of part-work, both before half-title pages. Location of 1 of the illustrations listed in Vol.I missing (inserted at p.69). Some foxing, mainly on prelims & page fore-edges. Leather a little faded on spines, with a little shelf-wear to leather on spines & board corners. Used - Very Good. VG hardbacks in half-leather.

Condition: Very Good. London: Chapman and Hall, 1862. First Edition, First Issue bound from parts. Two volumes bound in one; octavo (22cm); contemporary half calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine in six compartments with black gilt spine label; viii,320; viii,320pp.; frontispieces, thirty-eight (38) leaves of plates. Bound without half titles, else collated complete. Boards rather scuffed with surface scratches to both covers and spine, textblock a bit browned and rather foxed, small 20th century bookseller ticket to front pastedown; Very Good and sound overall. Contemporary armorial ownership ex libris of Welsh Liberal politician Richard Green Price (1803-1887) to front pastedown. Sadleir 13.