William John Leech (89 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The Author, George Cruikshank and John Leech (illustrator). 'The Biographical Edition' featuring "Ballads and Miscellanies". In very good bright red cloth boards, initials of author in gilt to front and titles to spine. The boards are flat and tight; spine sunned and spine ends bumped; small kink to front fore edge. The black end papers are unmarked. The text block is illustrated in black and white by The Author, George Cruikshank and John Leech and includes a frontispiece with quite clean tissue guard. The top cut edge is in gilt and the fore and tail edges are marked and deckled. The pages are level and secure, the prelims and some of the pages are lightly foxed. A few pages are uncut. Very good condition. No dedications etc. Publisher's list to rear. Without jacket.

Condition: New. In.

cloth. Leech, John (illustrator). 4to. cloth. 315 pages. Reprint of the 1930 first edition. A near fine copy. Contains illustrations. A bibliography of this 19th century English book illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. Reprint of the 1930 limited edition, 312 pages, illustrated, a fine production. HARDCOVER, NO DUST JACKET, NO MARKINGS, SPLENDID CONDITION, EXCELLENT VALUE.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Decorative Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. With Illustrations by The Author, John Leech, Frank Dicksee, Linley Sambourne, F. Bernard and Frederick Walker (illustrator). Size 7½" x 5ĵ", 338 pages. Bound in red leather with ornate gilt frames on the front and back covers and the emblem of Glenalmond college in gilt on the front cover. Ornate gilt dentelles on the page edges and the inner turn-ins. 5 gilded raised bands to the spine with tooled titles in the second compartment and gilt flowers and foliage in the other compartments. Marbled page edges, pastedowns and endpapers. Condition very good, title label missing from spine, a little discolouration to covers, prize label on front pastedown, contents clean, complete and intact. With black and white illustrations throughout.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The Author, George Cruikshank, John Leech, & M. Fitzgerald (illustrator). green cloth with marks on cover, volume 18 only, number copy 458 of 1000, is completly loose from binding in front of book, has uncut pages with tears on edges, paper paste down on spine has part of the name missing, contents are clean.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. This is Volume XVIII of 26 volumes - an odd volume of an incomplete set and no. 796 of 1000 sets printed. Illustrated with numerous etchings. Cream-colored cloth binding. Condition: the cloth binding is nicked & chipped at the spine ends, at the hinges & the edges, especially at the corners. Spine label age-darkened. Internally very good condition. 419 pages.

Condition: New. In.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Leather binding. xi, 255 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. Custom binding. Clean, unmarked pages. Both boards detached. Provenance: Robert Cleveland's book plate on verso.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. john leech (illustrator). Portrait and numerous Illustrations; xiv+268pp. orig. cloth gilt, some marking on covers, label removed from back cover,

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Book is in fine condition. 312pp with colour illustrations.

Oblong 8vo. 18 ff. Illustrations. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 3000 copies.

Leather Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. John Leech (illustrator). 1st Edition. A SHAKESPEARE AFFICIONAD/COLLECTOR GEM! A hard-to-find/scarce publication. The poems and verse from Shakespeare, greatly enhanced in/by accompanying full color illustrations. A diminutive, high-quality publication with white full leather boards and gold gilt lettering and a full-color rose illustration on the front cover. Inked gift inscription on the front endpaper: "A Merry Christmas 1911 Florence Knight from Rose Ainsworth". No date of publication given (1911 or prior). A bright, clean, tight copy sans tears, stains, discoloration, etc. with all text and illustrations clean/unmarked. 36 pages. LF2.

Condition: Very good. - Quarto, red cloth titled in gilt within black rectangle. Lightly soiled. 313 & [2] pp. Small stain to bottom edge of half-title. Illustrated in B&W with 23 plates, including 1 folding plate, & profuse full-page & textual illustrations. Very good. Originally printed for the author in an edition of 155 numbered, signed copies by the Bremer Presse, Munich, 1930.

Half-Calf. Condition: Fair. John Leech. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 568 pages with 4 page contents, 3 steel engraved plates by John Leech., half-calf worn and rubbed, marbled paper boards, 5 monthly issues bound as 1, some light foxing at prelims and final page, some aging to the paper but all sound. *Stories & fictional tales, science, travel, history and philosophy, etc. Angus Bethune Reach has contributed pieces here. This Inverness Scottish writer is chiefly remembered for his "The Book With The Iron Clasps" a crime thriller. He died aged 35 in 1856.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. The Author, George Crucikshank and John Leech (illustrator). First Thus. Hardcover. The Works of Wiulliam Makepeace Thackeray. Volume XIII. Ballads and Miscellanies. Foxing to end inside covers and edge. Browning to spine. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contents: Introduction. Ballads. P.S. - Concerning Grandfathers and Grandmothers. The Famous History of Lord Bateman. SDramatic Fund Speech. Note-Books. Ballads. Love-Songs Made Easy Five German Ditties. Four Imitations of Beranger. Imitation of Horace. Old Friends With New Faces. Lyra Hibernica. The Ballads of Policeman X. Critical Reviews. Tales. Various Essays, Letters, Sketches, Etc. The Life of W. M. Thackeray (1811-1863). A Bibliography of the Works of W. M. Thackeray. Index. List of Illustrations. 751 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. John Leech, Harry Furniss (illustrator). 585 grams.

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by By Author, Goerge Cruikshank and John Leech (illustrator). This Biographical Edition is a lovely edn, full of extras. This Edition of The Works was originally published in Thirteen Volumes. This is Volume 13 - Last volume in this set/edition of 13 Volumes. Red cloth covered boards, sl. faded spine, bright gilt titling to spine and bright gilt lettering to front board, 6 small black spots to rear board, mottling/fading to covers. Hinges sound.NO INSCRIPTIONS. 751pp. Foxing to page edges and to endpapers. Illustrated in black and white. Black and white tissue guarded frontispiece. Internally CLEAN TIGHT AND BRIGHT. Contents include; ballads - FAIRY DAYS, PEG OF LIMAVADDY; A DOE IN THE CITY; Love songs made easy - THE MINARET BELLS; SERENADE; MY NORA; five German Ditties; Four Imitations of Beranger; Imitation of Horace etc etc. Uniform with my listings of Vols 7, 9, and 12 in this set.; 107517; 8vo.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Gebunden. Condition: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original w.

Condition: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the origina.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Half-Calf. Condition: Good. John Leech. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 283 pages + steel engraved plates by John Leech. Bound in a 19th century contemporary half-calf, marbled boards. The book has a woodcut engraved title page and a frontispiece 9one of the 12 plates) the contents and plate list (if there was one) are not bound in, the page after the title is chapter one? The text is complete and all plates present. Calf worn at spine and edges, page 29/30 has a rouche and closed tear top edge in margin, but all whole. Small octavo. Good+. 1st edition 1849. *The writer, dramatist and wit, contributed to Punch from issue number 2, wrote a number of plays in his early career, with many a success. This was published by the Punch Offices. He also coined the phrase, the palace of crystal, or, "Crystal Palace" at the Great Exhibition of 1851 prior to its opening and was picked up by Joseph Paxton and the name stuck. Charles Dickens was a pall-bearer at his funeral in 1857.

The standard catalogue raisonne and bibliography of Leech. Folio, publisher's buckram, long superficial scratch to front cover but otherwise near fine.