Pink Octavius (5 results)

Leather. Condition: Very Good. [Binding]. Full snake skin print leather, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, (14 x 11 inches). N.D. (no date, circa 1920). Unpaginated, 13 plates of Musical scores arranged by Hubert S. Ryan; illustrated by 13 full-page color plates by Wheatley plus frontis portrait of artist. Introductions by Henry Chance Newton. Bookseller ticket of B.H. Blackwell LTD., Booksellers, Oxford England. Some foxing to prelims, plates are clean and bright in a unique snake skin print binding. Francis Wheatly (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. in tact but loose plates or music scores on farded blue cloth.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. A ribbon bound portfolio containing 13 colour plates of Francis Wheatley's Cries of London together with lyrics and musical scores for 13 London street hawker's 'cries'. Folio. Light card covers are worn; soiled rubbed and chipped at edges. Text block edges dull and dirty. Internally, the title page is a little dull and has a previous owner's name neatly inked at the top, and some browning at page edges but generally neat, clean, bright and tight. Wheatley's sublime, idealised images of 18th century London street hawkers - the knife grinder and the cherry seller and so on - accompanied by the traditional music and lyrics. Wheatley, Francis (illustrator).…

2°. 13 Farbdrucke und 13 Notenseiten (Stücke zu den Stichen), 15 Textseiten. Ldr. Einband gering stockfleckig. Reproduktionen von kolorierten Stichen.

Couverture souple. Condition: bon. RO60147515: Non daté. In-Folio. Broché. Bon état, Couv. partiel. décollorée, Dos abîmé, Papier jauni. Environ 100 pages. Texte en anglais. Frontispice en noir et blanc. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc et en couleur, hors texte. Nombreuses partitions. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon. …