Michael Fairless Will Taylor (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Will F. Taylor (illustrator). Slight foxing to front and back pages.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Will F. Taylor (illustrator). Gilt lettering & front cover pictorial illustration on green cloth covered boards. 4to, 121pp with twenty tipped-in photographs by Will F. Taylor.

Condition: New. In.

Condition: Good. - Small quarto [10 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], dark green cloth with a vignette in gilt on the front cover. The binding is lightly bumped & rubbed with a stain to the vignette. ix, [iii] & 121 pages. 20 black-and-white photographic illustrations by Will F. Taylor tipped onto gray stock. The pages are somewhat rippled & the versos of the pages of gray stock are darkened. The rear endpaper is darkened & there is offsetting to the front endpaper from the bookplate on the front pastedown. Good. Mounted on the front pastedown is the bookplate of Emily Wheelock, the sister of poet John Hall Wheelock.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Will F. Taylor (photographer) (illustrator). First Thus. 1921: First edition to be printed with photographs; charming photographic illustrations by Will F. Taylor. In blue gilt-embossed boards which are a little rubbed at the spine. Some toning to ffep and a few spots of foxing within. A slightly clumsy repair to reattach frontispiece page. All photographic illustrations are mounted on grey card and are in nice condition.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Near Very Good. No Jacket. Taylor, Will F. (Photographs) (illustrator). Illustrated with Twenty Photographs by Will F. Taylor. B&W Photographs Pasted down onto fine Grey art paper. Green cloth cover with bright gilt landscape design to front and gilt lettering to spine. Beautiful and personal account of the lovely Sussex Countryside. 119 Pages. Page edges untrimmed. No inscriptions.Very slight wear to cover, a spot of white paint is on the bottom of the spine. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. 1stUSedn; Small quarto [10 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide], dark green cloth with titles and a vignette in gilt on the front cover. The binding is bumped & rubbed and the backstrip is MISSING. Ow all the contents is present and in good shape: FAIR/ndj: ix, [iii] & 121 pages. 20 black/white photographic illustrations by Will F. Taylor tipped onto gray stock. The place was West Sussex, the Adur Valley, and Michael Fairless turned out to be a woman- Margaret Fairless Barber (7 May 1869 - 24 August 1901), pseudonym Michael Fairless, who was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, 'The Roadmender' (1902) became a popular classicDescription of the Sussex countryside North of Shoreham & GoringbySea. "I have attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker. Both titles are correct, but the one is more pregnant than the other. All day I sit by the roadside on a stretch of grass under a high hedge of saplings and a tangle of traveller's joy, woodbine, sweetbrier, and late roses. Opposite me is a white gate, seldom used, if one may judge from the trail of honeysuckle growing tranquilly along it: I know now that whenever and wherever I die my soul will pass out through this white gate; and then, thank God, I shall not have need to undo that trail."// The Roadmender, a devotional country book, was very much to early Edwardian taste, clearly touched a melancholy nerve and achieved popular classic status. When the book was published there was a great mystery surrounding who Michael Fairless was, and what locale did he describe with such love? cf Bellerive, Georges(1915) Eloges de l'agriculture dignite et bonheur de la vie rurale.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.