Jerrold Douglas Et Al (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. pp 210 illustrations front hinge cracked hardback. John Leech et al. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. A good plus two volume set in the original green boards lettered in gilt on the spines. Some fading to the boards especially the spines. Small ownership inscription dated 1866 in first volume. Vol. I, Pp.x,400 . 52 illustrations. Vol. II, Pp.viii,385. 56 illustrations. Essays by William Thackeray, Leigh Hunt, Mrs. S.C. Hall and others. "English faces, and records of English character, make up the present work ----the aim of which is to preserve the impress of the present age; to record its virtues, its follies, its moral contradictions, and its crying wrongs." An intersting look at early Victorian England. Kenny Meadows (illustrator). …

Hardback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1840. Good condition with no wrapper. Second series in four volumes. Leather spines and corners, marbled boards. Drawn by Kenny Meadows, Engraved by Orrin Smith. Ex-library set with normal markings internally, bookplates and the like. Some repairs to joints. Volume 4 has front board LOOSE, but still present. Uneven fading and scuffing to covers - some chips. Volume 3 front board is nearly detached. Foxing and browning to pages throughout. A good reading set only. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched. Meadows, Kenny (illustrator). …

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Kenny Meadows' witty caricatures of the English with essays by a variety of authors, complete in two uniformly bound volumes. Two volumes in half calf bindings with marbled end papers and edges. Illustrated with 108 illustrations. Collated, complete. A two-volume set containing Kenny Meadows' witty caricatures of various English stereotypes in the nineteenth century, including the Chaperon and the Debutante, the Old Squire, the British Sailor, the Radical M.P., the Medical Student, the Factory Child, and many more. These illustrations are accompanied by original essays by distinguished writers, such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Leigh Hunt, and others. In half calf bindings. Externally, generally smart, though somewhat rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Plate of 'lawyer's clerk' detached but intact. Very Good. Kenny Meadows (illustrator). book.…

Leather/Marbled Boards. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In Two Volumes, brown tooled/gilt banded spines, gilt decorated borders, red marbled endpages. Handsome set. Engravings by Orrin Smith, Drawn by Kenny Meadows. With original essays by Distinguished Writers. Frontispiece, all plates intact. vi. 400 pgs. vi. 385 pgs. Small chips missing title plates, slight edgwear. Rare. Owner's Bookplate. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1845-1847 Leather Spin Marble Board.

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. A half morocco edition of Kenny Meadow's humorous work discussing people's features and how they denote personality, in signed bindings by Henderson & Bisset. An excellent example of this work, in half morocco signed bindings by Henderson & Bisset.This work looks at peoples faces, and discusses in a satirical manner how their features denote their personality.Some of the people described in the volumes include the Whig, the ballet mistress, the young squire, the poor curate, the quack doctor, the collegian, the dowager, the barrister, the waiter, and more.Illustrated with a frontispiece and illustrated title page to each volume.Volume I features forty-nine further plates, and volume II features fifty-two further plates. Collated, complete.Illustrated by Kenny Meadows, a caricaturist who is best known for his contributions to 'Punch'. His illustrations were known for a humorous bohemian style, and for the quality of his illustrations. This was his first major work. Contributors to the work, writing essays to accompany Meadow's illustrations, include William Makepeace Thackeray, Leigh Hunt, Douglas Jerrold, and William Howitt.With the illustrated bookplate of American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to each front pastedown. Carnegie, born in Scotland, emigrated to America as a child, and was instrumental in the expansion of the American steel industry, becoming one of the richest Americans in history, and a leading philanthropist in the United States, Great Britain, and the British Empire. During the last eighteen years of his life, he gave away ninety percent of his fortune to charitable causes. In half morocco signed bindings, with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Light rubbing to board tails. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages of volume I exceptionally clean and bright. Ten plates of volume II feature major tide marks, with light tide marks to the heads of twenty further plates. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. Kenny Meadows (illustrator). book.…