Rev R Cobbold (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Original ed. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright.name blind embossed ep "Rose Bank.Nacton Road, Ipswich" ; black titles with old 4x5" ilust of Tower seen through tall archway.Back cover advert for "Fry's pure Breakfast Cocoa".other adverts inner covers.with pub's book list last pages.Nice old production, still in quite nice condition with white text paper not tanning. Decorative cover border in very dark green. ; .includes long poem "ST. IVAN'S WARNING".Book is set up with 2 colums per page. Illustrated by Glossy Frontis Ilust "Marriage Procession" (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: N/a. In Ward Lock's "Lily Series" (No.71). Tale of the tower near Ipswich and one of the scarcer titles by Richard Cobbold, Rector of Wortham and author of "Margaret Catchpole". Brown cloth covers, illustrated with flowers in green and white with gilt title panels on spine and front board, 303pp plus 12pp of adverts. ND, but looks 1890s. Covers are modestly bumped and worn at extremities. Binding is weakening in places and front prelims - inc endpapers and half-title, are missing. Ref:093274.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Scarce early edition of "Margaret Catchpole", undated but from the title page (Ward, Lock & Tyler) and advertising material I would date it to 1876-1878. Patterned red cloth elaborately lettered and decorated in gilt, black and orange, all edges gilt, numerous unattributed plates. 380pp + 32pp undated catalogue at rear. Minor discoloration to cloth on rear cover and a few sections slightly sprung, but a good, sound copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. 12mo Rebound by library in green buckram, gilt titles to spine, with the original front cover illustration with damage to top one inch [missing] laid down. front matter of first two pages separated but present, the paper is brittle and inclinded to break along the rebound gutter; ow G/ndj: vi, 219, with 34 etchings by native artists (illustrating 30 trades etc.), lithographed extra title page as frontispiece with different title, ie 'The Chinese at Home', vignette title page, Illustrated with full page and intertext drawings of daily life and customs in Ningpo China in the mid-19th century. Includes: diviners, street singers, physicians, Buddhist Priest, wine carrier, lantern seller, Taoist priest, needle-maker, opium smoker, barber, physiognomist, beggars, matchmakers etc.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover: Good, 20 x 14 cm, IV + 219 + 77 pl., English, 1st Edition, illustrations, book condition: Good The original hardcover shows damage, the binding is intact but somewhat pulled. With frontispiece and 35 page-sized woodcuts and 42 woodcuts in the text. Cobbold was dean of Ningpo for 8 years. The images referred to in the title are reproductions of line drawings depicting Chinese professions, such as street musicians, doctors, priests, and collectors of waste, hair, and paper. [This description may have been translated by AI.]. …

Pp. vi, 219. With frontispiece, 34 full page drawing illustrations and many textual illustrations. Near contemporary half calf on marbled boards, somewhat rubbed. Old ownership signature on title page. Some minor staining. First edition of a charming work about various Chinese professions each accompanied by a pen-and-ink etching by a native artist. Some examples: the lantern-seller, the blind fortune-teller, the opium smoker, the physiognomy, the scavenger, street beggars, etc. The author served as Archdeacon at the treaty port of Ningpo for a period of eight years. Cordier BS 90.…

Hardback, approx 8 x 5 inches. In banded and textured green cloth cover with gilt lettering to spine and decorations to ends, gilt figurative illustration to front and blind embossed design to rear. In very good condition. Original green cloth cover. Cloth split at top end of spine, small nicks at bottom end. Corners bumped. Small chip/hole to cloth on rear spine edge. Later endpapers (original endpapers removed.) Neat glue repairs to binding of first couple of pages. Some occasional handling/thumb marks to pages, some very minor light foxing to a couple of plates. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Scarce. iv + 219pp. (220pp.) Illustrated with 34 toned plates (numbered 1-30, includes 4 plates ?The Cookshop?, and frontis plate.) Many B&W woodcuts within text, including some full page, and one on very last page. (Scarce in original binding.).…