Larcombe Ethel (17 results)

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Brown cloth on boards, with delightful 'Glasgow Rose' decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Colour plate as frontis, signed 'PH', in good order. Mild foxing to text pages. Book is undated. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 248pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear. PH, Ethel Larcombe (illustrator). …

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green cloth on boards, with delightful vine and leaf decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Weakening to hinge at rear, but secure. Presentation inked details on front end paper, together with a small stuck-on photograph of a cat. Small blemish on first page of text. Illustrated with three full page black and white plates by L Leslie Brooke. All plates in good order. Book is undated. The inked inscription is dated 1945, but the book is obviously contemporary with other similar Blackie books from around 1910. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 224pp. L Leslie Brooke, Ethel Larcombe (illustrator).…

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth on boards, with delightful 'Glasgow Rose' decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Inked previous owner's details/presentation on reverse of frontis. Mild foxing to text pages. Illustrated with black and white frontis. Book is undated, but inscription is dated 1909 - 10. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 247pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear. Ethel Larcombe (illustrator).…

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Red cloth on boards, with delightful 'Glasgow Rose' decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's inked name to front end page. Some mild foxing to text pages. Illustrated with four full page colour plates by illustrator Paul Hardy. All plates in good order. Book is undated, but is obviously contemporary with other similar Blackie works of around 1910 1912. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 222pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear. Paul Hardy, Ethel Larcombe (illustrator).…

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Red cloth on boards, with delightful 'Glasgow Rose' decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Presentation plate inside front cover dated 1911. Small ink stamped previous owner's names inside front cover and front end page. Some mild foxing to text pages. Illustrated with black and white frontis plate by W S Stacey. Book is undated but presentation plate on title page is dated 1911. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 256pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear. W S Stacey, Ethel Larcombe (illustrator).…

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Orange cloth on boards, with delightful 'Glasgow Rose' decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's inked details on front end paper, and a small rubber stamp on contents page. Colour plate as frontis, unsigned, in good order. Mild foxing to text pages. Book is undated. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 224pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear. Ethel Larcombe (illustrator). …

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Blue cloth on boards, with delightful 'Glasgow Rose' decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Presentation inked details to front end page. Some mild foxing to text pages. Illustrated with four full page colour plates by Scottish illustrator Harold Robert Millar. All plates in good order. Book is dated on title page (and inscription) as 1912. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 363pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear. Harold Millar, Ethel Larcombe (illustrator).…

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green cloth on boards, with delightful 'Glasgow Rose' decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Presentation plate inside front cover. Colour plate as frontis, signed 'PH' and three other colour plates. All plates in good order. Mild foxing to text pages. Book is undated, but presentation plate is dated 1918. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 252pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear. PH, Ethel Larcombe (illustrator).…

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Red cloth on boards, with delightful 'Glasgow Rose' decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Colour plate as frontis, unsigned, in good order. Mild foxing to text pages. Book is undated. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 276pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear. Ethel Larcombe (illustrator).…

Decorated Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green cloth on boards, with delightful 'Glasgow Rose' decoration to front board and spine. Mild bumping and rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's small ink stamped name to front end page and inside front cover, and loose presentation label dated 1913-1914. Some mild foxing to text pages. Illustrated with one black and white frontis signed (apparently) 'CHS'. Book is undated, but is obviously contemporary with other similar Blackie works of around 1910. The 'Glasgow Style' design on the covers were carried out by illustrator Ethel Larcombe, whilst employed by Talwin Morris, Art Manager at Blackie's publishing house in Glasgow, taking its style from the works of Morris himself and Charles Rennie Mackintosh et al. 232pp plus publisher's catalogue at rear. C H S (?), Ethel Larcombe (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Ballantyne, R. M. The coral island : a tale of the Pacific Ocean. London: Blackie and Son, s.d. [before 1913]. Hardback, VG. Red cloth with Glasgow style decorations in yellow and green by Ethel Larcombe, including the Glasgow rose. Covers are a little sunned to spine, bumped to corners and head and base of spine. Binding strong. Tanning to endpapers. 1913 school prize certificate to front pastedown. Colour frontispiece illustration by W. S. Stacey, as are the three other colour plates. Light foxing to title page. 262pp. + publisher catalogues which have a little light foxing. Contents clean and bright. Part of the Blackie Crown Library. Laura Ethel Larcombe (1876-1940) was an early twentieth-century British children's book illustrator and designer. She was employed on a freelance basis by Talwin Morris, Art Director at the Glasgow-based publishers Blackie & Son to design bookbindings for the firm. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing. W. S. Stacey, Ethel Larcombe (illustrator).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. James Fenimore Cooper's magnum opus, with colour plates by Archibald Webb, in a decorative cloth binding designed by Ethel Larcombe. A new edition of this work in the publisher's original decorative cloth binding, designed by book illustrator and designer Ethel Larcombe (1876-1940). Larcombe was commissioned by the renowned Glasgow Style artist Talwin Morris, who was then Art Director at the publishers Blackie & Son, to design book covers for the firm and their London subsidiary, Gresham, between 1904 and 1912. Many of these designs were produced in several colourways. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and three further colour plates by British artist John Archibald Webb (1866-1947), who generally signed his work 'ARCH WEBB'. Collated, complete. An enduringly popular historical romance novel, written by the notable American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851). This work is set against the background of the Siege of Fort William Henry, during the French and Indian War, and has been adapted many times for film, television and radio.With a sixteen-page publisher's catalogue to the rear.Undated, dated from the publisher's catalogue. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with a little shelf wear to the extremities and small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with the odd spot. Offsetting to the end papers. Very Good. John Archibald Webb; Ethel Larcombe (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: Dean & Son Ltd., nd but c 1920. 16mo, 38 p., bound in publisher's original boards with pastedown to front board. First edition of this title, comprising No. 4 in Dean's Pixie Series. Ring marks and discoloration to front paste down illustration; stain to heel of book affecting lower inner page margins; rear outer board gnawed; faint soiling internally, else a VG copy of a scarce book, with just four copies in OCLC. …

Sewn Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. (Danish Interest) TIK-TAK BABY'S KLOKKEBOG. Copenhagen: A/S Carl Stenders Kunstforlag, circa 1916. First edition. 8vo - 6" x 8-5/16". Full color pictorial sewn cloth wrappers in as new condition. [10]pp. including wrappers. Pinking to the head and foot of book. The pages of the book are of the same cloth material as are the wrappers and are in as new condition. The book is illustrated by Laura Ethel Larcombe and it is designed to teach a child how to tell time. The book is the Danish language version of Dean's Rag Book, TICK-A-TOCK (code number 196). The condition of the book is FINE. Larcombe, Laura Ethel (illustrator).…

Sewn Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. (Swedish Interest) TICK-TACK. Stockholm: Skyodad Eganderatt, circa 1916. First edition. 8vo - 6" x 8-5/16". Full color pictorial sewn cloth wrappers in as new condition. [10]pp. including wrappers. Pinking to the head and foot of book. The pages of the book are of the same cloth material as are the wrappers and are in as new condition. The book is illustrated by Laura Ethel Larcombe and it is designed to teach a child how to tell time. The book is the Swedish language version of Dean's Rag Book, TICK-A-TOCK (code number 196). The condition of the book is FINE. Larcombe, Laura Ethel (illustrator).…

Sewn Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. (Hungarian Interest) TIK-TAK! Budapest: Rozsnyai Karoly Kiadasa, circa 1916. First edition. 8vo - 6" x 8-1/8". Full color pictorial sewn cloth wrappers in as new condition. [10]pp. including wrappers. Pinking to the head and foot of book. The pages of the book are of the same cloth material as are the wrappers and are in as new condition. The book is illustrated by Laura Ethel Larcombe and it is designed to teach a child how to tell time. The book is the Hungarian language version of Dean's Rag Book, TICK-A-TOCK (code number 196). The condition of the book is FINE. Larcombe, Laura Ethel (illustrator).…

Sewn Cloth. Condition: Fine. First Edition. (Dutch Interest) TIK-TAK. Utrecht: W. de Haan, circa 1916. First edition. 8vo - 6" x 8-5/16". Full color pictorial sewn cloth wrappers in as new condition. [10]pp. including wrappers. Pinking to the head and foot of book. The pages of the book are of the same cloth material as are the wrappers and are in as new condition. The book is illustrated by Laura Ethel Larcombe and it is designed to teach a child how to tell time. The book is the Dutch language version of Dean's Rag Book, TICK-A-TOCK (code number 196). The condition of the book is FINE. Larcombe, Laura Ethel (illustrator).…