Introduction by James Laver (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Reprint Edition. Dust jacket is rubbed and slightly faded, with minor edge wear. Inside flaps of dust jacket are yellowed, and front flap is creased. Minor stains on top and bottom edge of book. ; Reprint of 1906 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Illustrated, 144 page guide to "collecting". Pages are a bit age-toned; dust jacket has significant edge wear, has an inked price on the top edge, and is faded. Book.

Cloth(Hrdcvr). Condition: G/VG. Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Littlefield. G/VG. (1973). . Cloth(Hrdcvr). First published in Great Britain in 1906. Reprint of that edition. Traces the development of all the processes of printing in colour.Appendix: coloured books with plates by Baxter, Rowlandson adn Alken; coloured books published by Ackermann. . 8vo., xxiv, 340pp., Very gently cracked . Black&White/Color Plates (illustrator).…

First 8vo, cloth. 44 pp, 28 illustrations (4 in color). The pages are rippled (but not stuck together, and there is minor fraying at the points and at the head and foot of the spine. No dj.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Stapled pamphlet. Part 2, number 4. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.

Soft cover. Condition: Book Good +/Near VG. First Edition - Softcover. 24 pages. large softback with beige/cream printed covers, blue titles to front, text on light grey paper. Covers have light/very light wear to corners with crease to bottom rear corner, heavy wear to spine-ends with 2cm split to top & 1cm split to bottom, heavy rubbing confined to spine edge, slight wear to edges. Excellent colour tipped-in plates within text. Text is very clean & in nice condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reprint of the 1906 edition. Quarto. B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ price-clipped; some darkening to top & fore-edges of book block; else NF/NF. 340 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Drawn and Described By Iris Brooke. Original blue/green cloth covered boards have faded otherwise very good in pictorial dust jacket. Charming color illustrations and line drawings. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very good. large 8vo size, colour illustrated wrappers just slightly rubbed on edges, contents very clean, overall very good.

large 8vo [25 x 19 cm]; xxiv, 340 pp, frontis, 28 plates, index. original green cloth, gilt spine title lettering, dj (price clipped), fine and clean, unmarked. There are two detailed chapters on the origins of coloured printing and of the methods of book illustration from 1500 to 1800. These are followed by 22 detailed chapters on individuals, publishers and the development and improvement of methods and techniques to the twentieth century. There are appendices on colored books with plates by Baxter, Ackerman, Rowlandson, Alien. A picture of this book is available on request.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Stapled booklet with a few minor marks on the back cover. Rex Whistler, containing eight colour plates and seventeen sepia illustrations (illustrator).

Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Large format, 10" x 12". Some spotting to top and bottom edges of boards, former owner notes back of frontispiece; dust jacket missing some pieces along edges and has a few tears and creases (yet displays reasonably well). 128 pages with B&W reproduction of Topolski's drawings, two in colour.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Red hardback with worn and torn dustjacket. Character studies of The Young Disraeli; Lord George Gordon; Joseph Nollekens; Dr. Samuel Parr; Baron Stockmar. With 32 illustrations 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback in jacket. 24x18.5cm. 12 pages plus 16 colour plates. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has a little edge wear. Front flap is not price-clipped: 7s. 6d. Jacket is now under clear removable covers. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zx-ZNDS.…

Paperback. Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. NO JACKET. Hardback 1946. 2nd edition. 31x25cm. 128 pages. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref zdd. Feliks Topolski (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Good ++. 39 pages including indices & 66 pages plates printed both sides of page, some part page, some full page, the first 18 plates are COLOUR to remainder are b/w. Softback with dustjacket. Dustjacket has wear with chipping to upper edges & spine-ends, wear to corners, foxing to surfaces notably to rear, rubbing to hinges with 6cm split taped, some colour fading. Book has light foxing/light yellowing to surfaces/page-edges, light wear with slight browning to spine-ends & corners, slight browning to edges, slight blotching to flyleaf. Plate pages are spotless, text pages are very celan. Nice sound condition.…

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Some fading and staining of cover, with signs of wear at cover edges. Some marking due to age on pages, but overall book remains in good condition considering age. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardback. Condition: good. first with DW a couple of tears on the spine/repaired. Various (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover Fine The Easton Press 1977 Collector's Edition, Bound in Genuine Leather Translated by various individuals, edited by James Laver Leather cover, binding and interior look almost very brand new.

350 pp including index, b&w photographic and line illustrations, previous owner's name on front end-paper, losses to top of d/j, else very good copy in good, illustrated, price-clipped d/j. First edition.

Condition: Very Good. First edition in publisher's original stapled illustrated card covers. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼''. 8 colour plates and 17 sepia illustrations throughout. Small message to the half-title page, age toning of the cream paper to the lower cover, contents in Very Good clean and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. STAGE & THEATRE.…

Hardcover. Large Octavo, viii, 304 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Lacking the slipcase. Bound in the publisher's burgundy cloth bearing gilt lettering to the spine. Boards have slight wear including lightly sunned spine and sparse faint smudges exteriorly. Text block has top edge gilt and slight age toning to the fore/tail edges. Deckled fore and tail edges. Hairline crack to the front hinge. Faint foxing to the end papers. Missing top portion to front free end paper. Frontispiece. Very mild wear interiorly. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column M, ND-M. Oversized book(s). Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers, please inquire for rates. 1384214. FP New Rockville Stock.…