Wildrake Heath (35 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1985 R. S. Surtees Society facsimile of Hillingdon Hall or The Cockney Squire by R. S. Surtees. Illustrated by Wildrake, Heath and Jellicoe. Hardback in near fine condition, boards and binding clean and largely intact. No dust jacket. Includes further publisher advertising of future pu…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Reissue by the Surtees Society in facsimile of the original, large 5191pp, colour and line illustrations by Wildarke, Heath, and Jellicoe, green cloth lettered and illustrated gilt, VG+/Fine Copy without glassine DJ Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Wildrake, Heath, Jellico…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. Facsimile edition by the Folio Society, 1985 - no author's name given, superb fine condition book throughout, contains 12 stunning colour plates including the frontispiece, no inscriptions, excellent boards with gilt decoration to front and spine, presented in a boxed slipcase, thi…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Clean tight copy, clothbound in green. Black and white and colour illustrations throughout. 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…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Stated sixth edition of the novel by Robert Smith Surtees featuring his Cockney character, Mr. Jorrocks. This, as in other Surtees novels, comically skewers English gentry. This 1950 edition is founded upon the George Routledge & Sons editions of 1844. With 12 hand-coloured Wildr…

Three-Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good - Fine. No Jacket. Later Printing. 519 (24) pp, preface, list of tissue-protected hand-colored illustrations, 47 chapters; publications of John C. Nimmo. Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the seco…

Hardback. Condition: Good. 1st. First UK limited edition hardback (448/1000), 1931, with no jacket. In overall good used condition with minor signs of age, handling and storage - red bevel-edged boards tanned to spine and titles rubbed. Binding tight and appears lightly read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; tann…

Gilt-decorated Maroon Cloth. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. (viii), 519pp, 16pp publisher catalogue at rear, illustrated with 12 hand-coloured plates, some spotting to edges but pages and plates appear to be clean, black endpapers, paper at hinges starting to crack, maroon cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and uppe…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint Edition. With 12 plates in colour. A reprint, limited to 1000 numbered copies for the U.S. A few tiny ink spots near edges of a few pages. Original cloth with light fading along spine. Tight and clean. Near fine. No jacket. The frontispiece is starting to separate along top third of page,…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. London: John C. Nimmo, 1888. First illustrated edition [1888]. Nicely bound copy of one of Surtees' gentle English social comedies, illustrated with twelve hand colored plates. Newer binding (probably early to mid twentieth century) of half crimson morocco over maroon boards,…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 519 pp. Binding split in several places. Spine cocked and worn with chips to ends. Foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's book-plate laid in. Edges browned. Covers worn. Corners bumped. Illustrator: Wildrake - Heath - Jel…

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus to Very Good. No Jacket. Reprint; #455 of 976. Original; red cloth on boards. Title and two colour plates incised. Library gift bookplate and rejection stamps, but no signs of circulation. This binding matches the other Surtees titles I have just listed. Top edges gilt. To get a Review, I suggest…

Condition: as new. Hbk, 519pp, edition limited to 1000 numbered copies of which this is number 79, illustr 12 full-page color plates, no dj as issued, fine red cloth with black spine-label and gilt foredge, titles and ornament, now in custom acetate jacket, a fine, crisp, clean, tight unmarked copy, and a very handsome volume, a…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Plain red covers with gilt titles on black to spine. The black is rubbed off in parts. Beveled edges, gilt top page edges.no.169 of limited edition of 100. Neat name and address under Limited edition note. 12 full page colour plates. Foxing to eps. and frontispiece only. Wildrake,heath and Jellicoe (i…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No DJ. Red cloth, slightly worn, faded spine and margins of cover, with gilt illustrations and titling. Fading to spine. 6 X 9". With colour plates. No ownership inscription. A few foxing spots mainly to prelims and page tips. 519 pages, 24 pages of catalogue. Text clean, binding tight. Size: Lge 8vo…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION : IN HALF LEATHER BINDING BY BAYNTUN'S OF BATH - WITH TWELVE HAND COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS : Tightly bound, as one would expect, from this premier binder. Tan Leather and matching cloth, Red gilt leather label to spine, 5 raised bands, gilt decoration within e…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good - Slip Box. 1st Edition. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION : RECASED USING THE ORIGINAL GILT COVERS - HOUSED IN PURPOSE MADE SLIP BOX - WITH TWELVE HAND COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS : Tightly bound, copy, with some foxing, with colour plates. Spine neatly laid down. [vi], 519 p…

By the author of "Handley Cross", "Jorrocks`s Jaunts and Jollities", this book is about country life in the village of Hillingdon in the mid-nineteenth century. 12 exquisitely hand coloured plates with tissue guards. Red cloth bevel edged boards, blindstamped on upper and lower covers, decorated spine. Spine ends worn, spine fad…

Hard Back. Hard Back Bound in the original maroon cloth with gilt pictorial to the front board decorative embossed detail to both boards and vignette and gilt titles to the spine In good condition despite a little fading to the extremities with minor loss to the corners Spine sunned with the gilt dulled shelf wear to the top and…

Cloth. Condition: Fair. The first illustrated edition of this novel following Jorrocks, illustrated with hand-coloured plates. Following Jorrocks as he becomes the new squire of Hillingdon Hall.Robert Smith Surtees (1805-1864) was an English editor and novelist, most widely known for the cockney character of Jorrocks. This work…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. . . . . 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Vg+ condition. Full red leather binding. Gilt spine title, with added gilt foxhunting vignettes. Very slight wear to spine edges, leather still fairly supple. Contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy, square and tight. 12 color illustrati…

Leather. Condition: Very Good Indeed. An illustrated edition of Surtees' Hillingdon Hall, in very attractive leather binding. Containing twelve colour plates by various illustrators, the work is a fine example of Victorian upper-class humour, as well as of Surtees' unique fiction on the whole. In half-calf binding with gilt deta…