Redfarn W B (8 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. W. B. Redfarn (illustrator). Facsimile Edition. This facsimile reprint of the 1876 original was published in January 1975 by the 'Land of Cokaygne Ltd.' for the Cambridge History Agency. The sketches were reproduced by offset lithographic printing process on Queen Anne Antique Cream card & the text on White Register Offset Cartridge. The covers are blue Energy tinted bound four sheet. & the book's pages are bound with red cord ties. There are 26 plates with facing descriptive text. To the front, following a facsimile of original titles, is John Nicholson's introductory essay: "Thoughts on the republication of Redfarn's Old Cambridge" in which he discourses on the parallels between the loss of Redfarn's Cambridge to the Victorian rebuilding of the City and, a century later, the loss of the Victorian Lion Yard & Petty Cury, one of England's most famous streets, to the modern shopping centre that replaced them. Another area of Cambridge, 'The Kite' was also at the time of publication, under threat & since demolished to make room for the Grafton Shopping Centre. Also to the front is an Index of Places with a facing b/w. map & Redfarn;s original preface. First Thus. Size: Oblong Folio. unpaginated (4 + 4 + 26 + 26). Black titles front. Illustrator: W. B. Redfarn. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Genealogy & Local History; Cambridge; Art; Drawing; England; 19th century; Architecture. ISBN: 0904063100. ISBN/EAN: 9780904063103. Inventory No: 5090.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. W B REDFARN (illustrator). A fine copy printed in 1880 of an original pen and ink illustration .Mounted (matted) and ready to frame . Very good condition . Printed in 1880 .Shows 8 fine examples of old spurs in the collection of W.B. Redfarn of Cambridge drawn to half size, together with a description of each one.

Maroon Cloth, Gilt. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 26 Original sketches, with descriptive letter-press. The plates, on blue paper, with the accompanying text opposite, documented the vernacular and domestic buildings of Cambridge as the onset of late 19th-century redevelopment cleared large parts of the city of buildings which had stood for hundreds of years. This copy appears to have been rebound in maroon pebbled cloth, with gilt titling, as a Prize for Cycling in 1891. There are some associated ephemera laid-in, the prize having been won by Robert Thurgood Catling, of the Cambridge Auctioneering family. There is some bumping, and edgewear to the covers, with some offsetting to the endpapers, the remainder of the contents in very good condition. [12704/731] Size: 280mm. X 385mm.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Fair. Boards heavily damp-marked and mottled at the margins and the spine and very much so to the lower board. Minor age-toning to the lining papers and the title page but the plates remain bright and clean; Hardback. red boards with gilt titles to the upper board; Measures 10¾" x 15" (1.6 kg); pp 0; Includes: Black & white plates (22). || The book is on the shelf and ready to post from Bath by a real bookseller, packed properly, despatched promptly and personally guaranteed (in addition to your normal rights). My Book #207464 ||.

Cloth. Condition: Good. None Stated (illustrator). A very scarce copy of this richly illustrated survey of Cambridge's historic wood and iron craftsmanship, illustrated with 28 plates. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding and paper covered boards.A very scarce copy of this work.Illustrated with 28 plates. Collated, complete.A detailed architectural survey of Cambridge"s historic wood and iron craftsmanship, documenting domestic and collegiate features such as doors, hinges, screens, chests, gates, tracery and decorative metalwork.W. B. Redfarn was an artist, draughtsman and member of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, specialising in architectural ornament and heritage recording.The accompanying letterpress is by John Willis Clark (1833-1910), the distinguished Cambridge architectural historian and long-time university registrar. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding and paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart. Discolouration and soiling to extremities. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to paper boards, more so towards joints. The odd handling mark and scratch to boards. The odd spot of damp staining to front board. Damp staining to upper perimeter of rear board. Discreet library stamp of Assay Office Library, Birmingham, to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots and handling marks to fore edge. Good. book.

Book Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. W. P. Spalding, 1876. 1st Edition . Very Good/No Jacket. Large oblong format book in very good condition, with some wear and rubbing. Book has been rebound, with leather to spine and grey buckram to boards, retaining original title-label. Internally clean. Illustrated with 26 plates, and descriptive text for each plate. Will incur extra overseas postage.

Hardcover. Condition: g. First edition. Oblong folio. 4pp (Title and Index of Plates), [26] leaves (Captions), XXVI leaves (Plates). Original 3/4 morocco over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Illustrated title. In this remarkable work, the author documented the vernacular and domestic buildings of Cambridge as the onset of late 19th-century redevelopment cleared large parts of the city of buildings which had stood for hundreds of years. This work is exquisitely illustrated with 26 illustrated plates on blue paper. Each plate faces its accompanying text. Some rubbing along edges of binding. Some moderate abrasion along joints. Minor and sporadic foxing throughout. Binding in overall good-, interior in good+ to very good condition.

Oblong 4to., First Edition, with title in red and black, and 26 fine plates on blue stock with accompanying letterpress; original full brown leather, boards elaborately framed in blind enclosing title in gilt, back with raised bands, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, a remarkably bright, crisp, clean copy. Sold from a local institution with two neat stamps on blank preliminary only. Valuable and very scarce record of many of the ancient buildings cleared to to make way for late nineteenth-century redevelopment. EXTREMELY SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Anderson, p.60; Bartholomew (Clark Bequest) p.203 (giving the author as 'Redfern').