Thomas Wright and R H Evans (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Tight binding, solid illustrated boards with sharp corners, bright black lettering to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Reprint of the 1851 edition. Red publisher's mark to bottom edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Original cloth. First thus; reissue. Fine but for hint of soil to cloth. Tight and unmarked. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 496 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Two volume set. Tight binding, solid illustrated boards with sharp corners, bright black lettering to spine strips, clean, unmarked pages throughout. Reprint of the 1851 edition. May require additional postage fee.

Hardcover. Reprinted. Octavo, xii, xv, 496 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in the publisher's yellowish beige cloth bearing black lettering to spine. Boards have mild wear including slight age toning to the spine/edges, minor soiling and minimal edge wear. Text block has slight wear including slight age toning to the edges. Slight offsetting to the end papers. Former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Frontispiece. Minor marginalia. Illustrated. Reprinted. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column O, ND-O. 1391412. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and bright, no markings, light wear to edges. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

2 vols. Illustrated. 8vo and folio, publisher's cloth. Reprint of the 1851 edition. Fine. Additional postage applicable for this 2-volume set.

8vo. (8 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches). 496 pp. Half red morocco with marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands forming six compartments, elaborately gilt, black morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers The first edition of the descriptive catalogue accompanying Bohn's collected edition of James Gillray's caricatures, preserving a detailed mid-nineteenth-century reading of Georgian political and social satire. This first edition catalogues 582 of Gillray's prints, arranged in two principal series: political caricatures, plates 1 to 366, followed by satires on persons and manners, plates 367 to 582. Each entry gives the title, date, subject, and historical setting of the print, making the book a useful guide to the dense political allusions, personalities, parliamentary controversies, social habits, and visual jokes that shaped Gillray's work. Gillray's prints form one of the defining visual records of late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain. His satires treated George III, Queen Charlotte, Pitt, Fox, Sheridan, Napoleon, the French Revolution, parliamentary reform, war, finance, fashion, medicine, theatrical culture, and metropolitan manners with a combination of political immediacy and graphic invention. Wright and Evans' account was written within living memory of many of the people and events satirised, giving the catalogue a particular value as both print reference and Victorian historical commentary.…