Walter Sidney Scott Ed (8 results)

Condition: Good. 1944. Limited Edition. 79 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Quarter bound red leather with blue cloth covered boards. Limited edition of 500 copies. Copy No.355. Black and white illustrations to front of book. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 25x16cm, 87pp. With illustrations by Lettice Sandford printed in black and hand-coloured. Copy 15 of 60 (300), signed by Walter Sidney Scott and Sandford, bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in quarter-cream sheepskin over 'cloth of gold' patterned cloth-covered boards, a.e.g., gilt title to backstrip, in a slipcase of thin cream card. The original plan was for this book to be illustrated by Joan Hassall, but after many delays Christopher Sandford turned to his wife. He was disappointed by the hand-colouring done by 'a lady working from home in Hendon' (Cave & Manson) although the work seems pleasant enough here. The letters were known as the 'Lushington Papers', lent by Susan Lushington, a friend of Lettice Sandford's. Scarce and rather luxurious in the special edition as here, with the rich 'cloth of gold' brocade and all edges gilt (as Sandford notes in Cock-a-Hoop) Very Good (Fine but for moderate toning to backstrip) in a Fair (splits along several edges, rather grubby) slipcase. Cock-a-Hoop 193. Lettice Sandford (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated throughout by Lettice Sandford and hand coloured in pink and blue. First Edition thus. 4to. [255 x 162 x 20 mm]. 88p. Bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with their ink pallet to front pastedown, in quarter citron goatskin with cloth of gold boards, blocked and lettered in gilt to the spine, with gilt edges. In a cream paper slipcase. (Slipcase quite fragile and torn in some places). Limited edition of 300 copies - 60 of which were specially bound in cloth of gold, of which this is number 4. Bookplate of W. and P. J. Kupfer on the front pastedown. A lovely production of these lively letters from two of the best-known women-writers from the turn of the 18th century. Lettice Sandford (illustrator).…

1st edition 1/4 leather Nice copy large octavo 84pp., frontis., references, Quarter russet morocco with gilt spine titles and decoration, top edge gilt, over blue buckram. PHOTO available.

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Limited. Edited by Walter Sidney Scott. Rubricated title. Frontispiece and 3 other illustrations, 79pp. Small slim 4to, 1/2 brick red levant, green cloth, untrimmed. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Limited Edition. Very Good. With letters of Mary Shelley and T. L. Peacock and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley. One of only 500 numbered copies.…

86 S. Einige mont. Abb. Oldr. (full leather, Ganzleder) 4°. Signierter Ganzmaroquin-Band - Exlibris auf Innendeckel und Vorsatz. Eins von 50 signierten Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe in Ganzleder (signed, signiert, englische Romantik) clean copy, no ex-library, no stamps.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Limited. Edited by Walter Sidney Scott. Rubricated title. Frontis. and 3 other illus. 79pp. Sm 4to, 1/2 brick red levant. London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944. Near Fine. With letters of Mary Shelley and T. L. Peacock and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley. One of only 500 numbered copies.…

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1943 & 1944. 4to, 3 vols; half quarter morocco over blue cloth boards, spine with four raised bands, and lettered in gilt with publisher's devices to spine; upper edge gilt, else untrimmed; pp. [vi], 5-86, [iv]; [vi], 5-84, [ii]; [viii], 7-79, [iii]; light markings to boards and bumps to corners; slight variance in the colour of the leather to vol ii; aside from light toning to the page edges, near-fine.Limited editions. The Athenians No. 74 of 350 numbered copies, Harriet & Mary No. 354 of 500 numbered copies, Shelley at Oxford No. 228 of 500 numbered copies. All printed on perpetua type, on Arnold's mould-made paper. A complete set of all three volumes of Hogg's correspondence. The first volume contains correspondence between Thomas Jefferson Hogg and his friends Thomas Love Peacock, Leigh Hunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and others. The second contains the relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Thomas Jefferson Hogg. The third details the early correspondence of P. B. Shelley with his friend T. J. Hogg, together with letters of Mary Shelley and T. L. Peacock and a hitherto unpublished prose fragment by Shelley. Considering the fact that all three of these volumes were published during the war, this is a charming set, with a superior paper quality not often found during this time period.…