John Nash Introduction By (10 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 397 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 141pp. Tan card covered binding with red initials and black lettering on front cover and black titling on spine. A memorial exhibition of the life and work of Michael Renton set out in this book. Extensively illustrated in colour and b/w with many examples of the artist's engravings, commercial designs, stone cuts and bookplates. This copy originally belonged to contributor, Simon Brett. His postmortem library bookplate is tipped to inside front cover. The book is in fine condition and appears unread. Michael Renton (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Good. 1844 printing. A Good copy. Originally part of the F. A. Sondley collection, and bears the markings of the Sondley Reference Library of Asheville, including call numbers, book plate and blind stamp on the title page. 8vo., 52 pp. Bound in black cloth with title on spine in gilt. With F. A. Sondley's name and date he purchased this volume on a front end paper. Front hinge cracked thru. Forster Alexander Sondley, attorney and scholar, was born at Montrealla, his maternal grandfather's home in Alexander, a community ten miles north of Asheville. As an adult he most often referred to himself as F. A. Sondley. A lawyer. Historian, and collector of art, he is chiefly remembered for his personal library of approximately 30,000 volumes containing hundreds of rare works on southern and state history and on natural history. The city of Asheville acquired the library by bequest at his death, and parts of it still form the nucleus of the Sondley Reference Library in Asheville.…

Condition: Near Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original lavish orange decorated glazed covers, gilt title and author lettering to navy cloth. Landscape folio 10½'' x 12''. ISBN 1851455833. Contains 128 printed pages of text with splendid colour illustrations throughout, one triple page fold-out colour plate. Fine condition book, in very near Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped with the original selling price in 1991 being £25.00. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1851455833 SUSSEX [Brighton & Hove].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 48pp. Large Quarto within illustrated paper boards bumped to the extremities. Unmarked internally without inscription. Overall a nice copy of a SCARCE book condition commensurate with its age.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original lavish orange decorated glazed covers, gilt title and author lettering to navy cloth. Landscape folio 10½'' x 12''. ISBN 1851455833. Contains 128 printed pages of text with splendid colour illustrations throughout, one triple page fold-out colour plate. Fine condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small tear and related crease line to the top of the lower cover, not price clipped with the original selling price in 1991 being £25.00. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1851455833 SUSSEX [Brighton & Hove].…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition, published in the same month as the first. Large 8vo. 47, [1] pp. In the publisher's illustrated, paper-covered boards. Text generally bright and clean, covers in very good condition with a little edge-wear and corners bumped. Neat ink signature to ffep.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 152pp. One of 750 copies of the standard edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Green cloth quarter bound with gilt lettering on the spine. Floral paper covered boards. Yellow and black sewn headbands. Portrait photograph of the artist tipped onto page at frontispiece. Introductory essay by John O'Connor. Numerous engravings by John Nash, with some printed in colour. All enclosed within a matching green cloth covered slipcase, in fine condition. Additional postage costs may be required for this heavy volume, especially for international shipping. John Nash (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

, no.277 of a limited edition of 300, signed by Christopher Sandford, printed on F.J. Head's hand-made paper, 112 pages, woodcuts throughout Limited Edition , light rubbing to boards and spine ends, spine faded, internally clean, binding firm, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, very good condition , quarter morocco, patterned cloth, gilt titles to spine , 27 cm x 17 cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN.…

, 47 [1] pages, no. 238 of a 300 copy limited edition. SIGNED by Christopher Sandford, numerous black and white in text illustration and plates throughtout First Edition , the book is a little faded at head and foot edge of boards, green colouring to spine has faded to brown, book plate of Michael Raymond William Charles Holmes T.O.S.F tipped to upper pastedown, binder's mark to upper pastedown, very good condition , quarter bound green morocco under orange cloth with dark green cockerel design, gilt lettering to spine, gilt head edge to text block , octavo, 26.5cm x 17cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN.…