Illustrations Claude Shepperson (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Handsome two volume set. Tight bindings, solid beveled boards, elaborate gilt lettering and illustration to front boards and spine strips, gilt top edge, clean, unmarked pages throughout. 108 engraved illustrations by Herbert Railton, Claude Shepperson and Edmund Sullivan (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. A FINE hardback copy and New Edition (1898 same as first American edition, therefore First English Edition), printed from American plates at Aberdeen University Press. Striking and immaculate cover in beige cloth with full-length portrait blocked in black and brown. Gilt title and author with gilt geometric window shape to upper board. Gilt text to spine. Tight, bright, clean binding. Fine frontispiece by Shepperson, tissue guarded. No foxing, usual neat off-setting to end-papers. No inscription. Collates: [vi] 408pp. (8vo). Stanley John Weyman, 1855-1928. Charles Talbot was an English politician who was part of the Immortal Seven group that invited Prince William III of Orange to depose King James II of England during the Glorious Revolution. The seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury was once Alton Towers, until 1924. The family seat is now near Ashbourne, Staffordshire. 30% price reduction applied. Claude A. Shepperson (24 Illustrations) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Xi, 117 Pp + [Iii], 16 Pp Of Ads At Rear. Brown Cloth, Slate Endpapers. 1902 Date On Title Page. Inscription From Minnie Alford, Who Identifies Herself As Wiggins' Secretary. Photograph Of Three Women And A Man, Apparently Including Both Wiggins And The Secretary. Long Clipping Laid In Loosely, "An Hour At Quillcote-On-The-Saco", Home Of Kate Douglas Wiggin", With Photos, About Wiggin And Her Sister Nora Archibald Smith, And Mentioning Alford As Having Been Her Secretary For The Past Thirteen Years.…