Wallis Budge Etc (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Photographs And Drawings Throughout (illustrator). 1st Edition. Xiv, 325, [Ii]. Marbled Cloth, Possibly By Herman Sachs. First Printing, 1909 Date On Title Page. Near Fine. Inscribed In 1925 By Architectural Painter Herman Sachs To His Worker Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano, And With Napolitano's Ownership Signature; They Provided Architectural Decorations On Many Of The Most Prominent Los Angeles Buildings Circa 1924-1929, Etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Limited/Numbered. Limited Edition, this being No. 201 of 300 Copies issued for Private Circulation. Lxxxiii, 144pp [printed on rectos only], 65pp [printed on rectos only, and being in Amharic text], printed on hard stock paper. Collated, and complete with 33 b/w illustrations and 92 chromo-lithographic plates, as called for, colours still bright. OVERSIZED, measuring 12 1/2 inches tall by 10 1/2 inches wide, and 3 3/4 inches thick. Bound in the original blind stamped leather, done in an Ethiopian style, top edges gilt, other edges marbled. Covers in Good Condition, internally in Very Good Condition, front cover detached, foxing on back preliminary pages, upper/lower spine edges shows some loss. Valerie, Lady Meux [1852-1910] was a character in her own right, being a banjo playing barmaid that married Sir Henry Bruce Meux, 3rd Baronet, who came from one of Britain's richest brewing dynasties - Meux's Brewery. The original Ethiopian manuscripts were brought back from the Abyssinian Campaign by a British officer, who sold them to the antiquarian book dealer in London, Bernard Quaritch. They were then purchased by Lady Meux, and reproduced by E. A. Wallis Budge, on her behalf.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good ++. Limited/Numbered. Limited to 300 Copies for Private Circulation, this being No. 191. [4], lxv, [1], 158pp [printed on rectos only], 159-220pp [double sided], 116pp [printed on rectos only, and being in Amharic text], printed on hard stock paper. Top edges gilt, other edges marbled. Collated, and complete with 111 chromo-lithographic plates, as called for, with the colours still bright. Not just oversized, but MASSIVE, measuring 15 1/4 inches tall by 13 inches wide, and 5 1/8 inches thick. Bound in the original blind stamped leather, done in an Ethiopian style. Covers in Fair Condition, internally in Good ++ Condition. Spine covering pulling away from the front cover, front cover nearly detached, lower spine edge loss, corners of the book are bumped, occasional fore-edge tear [not affecting the text nor image]. Valerie, Lady Meux [1852-1910] was a character in her own right, being a banjo playing barmaid that married Sir Henry Bruce Meux, 3rd Baronet, who came from one of Britain's richest brewing dynasties - Meux's Brewery. The original Ethiopian manuscripts were brought back from the Abyssinian Campaign by a British officer, who sold them to the antiquarian book dealer in London, Bernard Quaritch. They were then purchased by Lady Meux, and reproduced by E. A. Wallis Budge, on her behalf.