J W Fortesque (10 results)

Red Cloth. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 184 pp. Frontis. and 3 plates by H.M. Brock. Spine a trifle sunned and end-papers browned otherwise a nice copy. H.M.Brock (illustrator).

Original Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 144p plate of a deer as frontispiece. From the Gladstone Fasque library (though no bookplate) - has signature of J.R.Gladstone on title page.As seen on the scans this is the first reprint of the first edition, in December 1897, three months after first printed in October1897. See Scans. …

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Macmillan & Co.LTD 1899 edition. Some foxing to pages, text clean and bright, binding strong, minor shelf wear to cover, no dust jacket/ NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. ix, 227, (8 ads) pp. b/w frontispiece. This is the the biography of the Earl of Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, who was, in the words of his 20th century biographer Donald Thomas, inarguably the finest single-ship captain since Elizabethan times. Cochrane led a life that reads like an improbable and picaresque historical novel. One of the "English Men of Action" series. Very good condition with pages mostly unopened, in original red cloth binding.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 144pp. Very well illustrated throughout - including full page plates. Interesting natural history reference literature. The book is in very good/excellent condition - clean and bright. Previous owner bookplate and gift inscription on fep. it presents very nicely on the shelf. PARROTT BOOKS - established for over 20 years offering a prompt friendly and efficient service. G D ARMOUR (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Folio Society Edition. 8vo, xii + pp220 with b/w illustrated in b/w by C. F. Tunnicliffe throughout. Hardcover in slipcase issued without dust jacket. Illustrated green paper covered slipcase in very good+ condition. Binding of green cloth with gilt title to spine and front board which also has a Tunnicliffe illustration pasted to center in very good+ condition with a tiny bit of shelf wear to tail of spine. Inside in excellent near fine and condition. An excellent copy of this edition. C. F. Tunnicliffe (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. Colour plates by Armour slight foxing to tilte page on leading edge ow vg cond. G D Armour (illustrator).

Good+ no dj red boards with gilt titling faed to spine which is sunned. corners and edges rounded, with some loss at ends of spine. 1inscription to ffep, and a bookplate to reverse of front board. internally clean but with some browning to pages. foxing to ffeps and page edges. all pages present.

Soft cover. sm4to, 25cm, lv,829p., index, errata, green printed wraps, faint withdrawn stamps, near fine, (B1). First published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, in 1898. With an extensive overview by English military historian and Windsor Castle librarian, Sir John William Fortesque.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Tall 8vo. Original green buckram with gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, light rubbing to the extremities, but otherwise a nice, clean copy, in a tight and square binding. Illustrated by G. D. Armour with full page plates in colour, some in half tone. Nice copy.…