Murray E H Illustrator (2 results)

Hardback octavo, very good condition, pictorial tan cloth cover (lightly marked), black & white plates (including frontispiece, with tissue guard), title page little toned, new endpapers, pages lightly toned (notably last page), minor edgewear, rubber bookshop stamp title page. 188 pp. An historical romance by Sydney Partrige set in rural Australia. This novel originally appeared as a serial in "Steele Rudd's Magazine". The author's name is also Sydney Partridge in some other novels, and is a pseudonym for Kate Margaret Partridge (1871 - 1953), who wrote novels jointly with another writer. Contains all four plates (rarely found). Review: "This is an Australian love story pure and simple. A young Queenslander falls in love with a fascinating girl from town but is jilted in favour of a titled man with money. He becomes a misogynist of the deepest dye, and buries himself in a veritable wilderness called Rocky Section â" miles from anywhere. One day he discovers a girl near his place who has evidently lost her way and fainted from sheer exhaustion. He takes her to his hut and revives her, only to find that she has lost her memory and cannot tell where she comes from. He hates women with a bitter hatred, but is on the horns of a dilemma. What happens? "The way out" is most interesting, but you must read it for yourself." (Bookseller stamp: J. H. Lundager, My Morgan.).…

Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. Limited Edition. Imperial 8vo, 11 x 7 1/2 inches (280 x 190 mm). [xvi], 84 pp. Set in Monotype Garamond and printed on Abbey Mills Text Book White laid paper. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Bound in Tego buckram, gilt-blocked on the front cover with the coat of arms of Marlborough, backstrip lettered in gilt; top edge amber, others untrimmed. Endpapers printed with a map of Wiltshire (1773) on Glastonbury Amber Antique laid paper. With matching dustjacket printed in black and myrtle green, featuring a line-block reproduction of a print of Marlborough High Street (not repeated in the text). Very light discoloration to the tail of the spine; small tear and chip to bottom edge of dust jacket, in rear. Copy 236 of 420 copies produced, numbered and signed by author and illustrator on the limitation page. [Butcher 25]. A typographically refined anthology tracing the history and character of Marlborough and its surrounding countryside from the fifteenth century onward, bringing together a wide range of historical and literary sources. The basis of the book was E. G. H. Kempson's series of talks on the history of Marlborough given at the town library, with an added selection of prose and poems connected to the town. Both illustrator, Richard Kennedy, and wood-engraver, Simon Brett, have association with Marlborough College. Richard Kennedy (illustrator).…