R B Marston Editor (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Limited Demy Quarto Edition to commemorate the 100th edition of The Compleat Angler! Two volumes in half green morocco over green cloth, some gilt tooling, gilt titles to upper boards, corners & edges worn. Spines, rubbed, raised bands, gilt titles. Internally Vol 1, half title, portrait frontis, [7], (viii-xcvii), [3], [3], (d-t), [1], [1], 2-118. Portrait frontis, [2], 119-357 pp. 54 pls, 87 illustrations plus 3 maps, errata leaf tipped to half title V1, each pl with printed guard, t.e.c, remainder uncut. Wood engravings by Mr. F. Carless & engraved by Mr. F. Alphonse Stankowski; photogravures by P.H. Emerson & George Bankart. (views on the Lea and Dove-those on the Lea by Mr. P. H. Emerson, B.A., & those on the Dove by Mr. George Bankart). VG (286*225 mm). The present edition reprints the text of the 1676 edition. Edition statement from verso of half-title (v. 1); full statement reads: This Demy Quarto Edition is limited strictly to 500 copies, of which this copy is No. 290 - signed by the editor RB Marston. CARLESS F. (illustrator). Signed by the Editor. …

Condition: vg. Very Good. Hardcovers, 2 volumes, light green cloth over boards with white cloth backstrips, gilt lettering and design, 357 pages. All plates and tissue guards present. Large Quartos. Text remarkably clean, bright, unmarked. Endpapers browned, staining to backstrips, corners lightly bumped and worn. #426 of 500 signed and numbered by Marston. Previous owner's nameplate (Louis Eben Poole) on both front endpapers. Please fel free to email for photos.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Ex library rebound hardbacks, no DJs; usual stamps/markings. Two volume set. This demy quarto edition is limited to 500 copies - this no 313 & signed by the editor. Published in 1888 by Samson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, London. Volume i has a slight lean to spine - both volumes have tanning to endpapers & light tanning to page edges with some foxing otherwise clean, sound copies. All 54 plates c/w descriptive tissue guards intact & free from markings. Heavy set will ship oversaes for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-2F*.…