John Faed (35 results)

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Hinges starting. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 20cm. Subjects: Galloway (…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Blue cloth boards with embossed decorations and title in gilt, the colour is a little uneven/discoloured, mo (the spine colour is mottled) spine ends/corners are a little frayed, binding holding well . There is light foxing but mostly to the guard papers, the illustrations are bright although there ar…

2pp., 16mo. In fair condition, lightly-aged, with trimmed margins and slight damage at head from removal from album. He asks her to accept a 'Copy of Titian's "Ascension of the Virgin". You seemed to like it and it may fill a corner in your Boudoir.' He apologises if the frame is 'not as it should be but some might prefer he qua…

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Hinges starting. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 20cm. Subjects: Galloway (…

Half-Leather and Moire Silk. Condition: Very Good. n.d.: C. 1900. A beautiful edition in brown leather and indigo-brown moire, gilt heads, marbled eps and pastedowns, with gilt lettering and elements on front covers and along backstrips. Some scuffing to leather at corners and crown and foot of spines; some occasional signs of s…

Hard back binding in publisher's original royal blue cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front, all page edges gilt. Quarto. 10'' x 8''. Contains (viii), 163 pp + catalogue dated March 1875. Front end papers missing, having 19 (of 20 - with frontispiece missing) full-page single-sided plates on thick card st…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book condition: Good in original embossed boards with gilt titles, decoration, and page edges; some wear and slight fade to binding; a couple of small marks; some loosening between gatherings; faint water mark to edge of a few pages; a few smudges here and there, but pages gene…

Cloth. Condition: Good Only. First edition. A poem of St Swithin, with the wonderful illustrations of John Faed. First edition. John Faed, R.S.A. (31 August 1819 22 October 1902) was a Scottish painter. His paintings, popular in Victorian Britain, can today be found in private and public collections, including the National Galle…

Half-Leather and Moire Silk. Condition: Very Good. n.d.: C. 1900. A beautiful edition in brown leather and indigo-brown moire, gilt heads, marbled eps and pastedowns, with gilt lettering and elements on front covers and along backstrips. Some scuffing to leather at corners and crown and foot of spines; some occasional signs of s…

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, but with a corner of the first leaf torn away, resulting in some loss of text, including the year. The reverse of the second leaf laid down on a leaf removed from an album. The image of the 'design', 8 x 6.5 cm, is on the second leaf, which also carries Tayler's sig…

Condition: very good. Sandusky, Ohio: Cosmopolitan Art Association,1860. 22 1/8" x 27 3/4". Mezzotint engraving by James Faed.Published exclusively for the Members of the Cosmopolitan Art Association. For the Sixth Year 1859-60. Very good condition. A skillful group portrait of England's distinguished 16th-century literati. Shak…

Full Morocco. Condition: Very Good. Comical narrative poem about the early Medieval patron saint of Winchester Cathedral, drought and draughts (of ale)! 4to. 27 by 21 cm. 21 pp, hand-colored lithographic title page plus eleven other hand-colored lithographic plates. (The book is generally not encountered with hand-coloring.) Joh…