Usher James Ward (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Cloth covered hardback. No dust jacket. Slight wear to corners and edges of cover. Frontispiece loose with worn and torn edge. First 3 pages and last 30 pages discoloured ( see photo). Illustrations clean.300 copies privately printed. Full title page: An Art Collector's Treasures illustrated and and described by himself being a record historical and descriptive of the art collection formed by James Ward usher (of Lincoln) 1886-1914. Containing eighty illustrations in colour reproduced reproduced from the author's own water-colour drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 300 copies of this work were printed in 1916. This is one is one of 47 copies, previously unbound, which were bound and issued in 1977 to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Usher Gallery. It is not known whether this is one of the 300 originally printed. In a sound and clean red cloth binding, 224 pages, 29 x 38.5 cm, containing 87 illustrations in colour form the author's own water-colour drawings (plate XXXIIA is missing from the 47 copies). A very nice volume, heavy, so extra shipping outside UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Folio. 16 inches by 11.5. One of 300. Original publisher's sumptuous full burgundy leather lettered gilt on spine and on front cover with gilt decoration. Faint mottling but o/w about fine in its original box now somewhat worn. An exceptionally handsome example. 80 Illustrations in colour reproduced from the Usher's own water-colour drawings. xvi, 224 pp. Ceramics (especially from the Chelsea, Derby & Worcester factories, but also several others including Sevres & Dresden), Battersea enamels, Portrait Miniature, good section on antique gold French and English watches, also autographs, miniatures, cabinets, jewel boxes, etc Treasures from the house of Usher.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Limited Edition. Limited to 50 Copies for Private Circulation Only. Full red Contemporary Morocco leather binding with publishers gilt lettering with a circular gilt cartouche. Beautiful floral gilt endpapers - ORIGINAL & UNSPLIT. All edges gilt. Normal wear to extremities with NO CHIPPING & NO SPLITTING to boards. Internally VERY CLEAN indeed with NO INSCRIPTIONS. A lovely copy of this SCARCE Reference in original publishers binding. James Usher Ward was a Lincoln Jeweller whose collection formed the basis of the Usher Gallery in Lincoln. There was supplementary volume of further b&w plates but this is not included. The collection included the Mary Queen of Scots Watch by Pierre Duhamel.

Limited Edition. Limited edition: "Only three hundred copies printed of this work." Good copy bound in gilt-blocked full leather. Gilt-decorated title on front cover. Some wear to spine and hinges, with dulling and rubbing to panel edges. Surface wear and scuffs to boards as with use and age. Marbled endpapers. Marginal dust marks evident in places. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description: xiv, 223, p. , frontis. , 74 col. Plates : ill. ; folio. 37cm. Subjects: Art objects - Private collections. Museums - Lincolnshire - Lincoln. Art galleries - Lincolnshire - Lincoln 5 Kg.

Limited Edition. Limited edition: "Only three hundred copies printed of this work." Good copy bound in gilt-blocked full leather. Gilt-decorated title on front cover. Some wear to spine and hinges, with dulling and rubbing to panel edges. Surface wear and scuffs to boards as with use and age. Marbled endpapers. Marginal dust marks evident in places. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Physical description: xiv, 223, p. , frontis. , 74 col. Plates : ill. ; folio. 37cm. Subjects: Art objects - Private collections. Museums - Lincolnshire - Lincoln. Art galleries - Lincolnshire - Lincoln 4 Kg.

First edition, one of 300 copies. First edition, one of 300 copies. Containing 80 Illustrations in colour reproduced from the Author's own water-colour drawings. xvi, 224 pp. 1 vols. Folio. This collection contains mostly ceramics (especially from the Chelsea, Derby & Worcester factories, but also several others including Sèvres & Dreden), Battersea enamels, Portrait Miniature,antique gold French and English watches, cabinets, jewel boxes, etc. Crimson cloth. Some chewing at the fore-edge of binding, else fine Containing 80 Illustrations in colour reproduced from the Author's own water-colour drawings. xvi, 224 pp. 1 vols. Folio.

Condition: V.G. Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binding - Being a record Historical and Descriptive of the Art Collection formed by James Usher Ward 1886 - 1914 containing eighty illustrations in colour from the author's own water-colour drawings. L.P. 1916. p.p. ii - xiv - ii - errata slip - 224. T.E.G. Limited edtion (300). Folio. Contempory full maroon morocco with gilt central oval panel by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, founded in London in 1901 and recognised as one of the finest binders in Europe.