Williams S Illustrators (4 results)

Hardcover. Reprint. Octavo, xvii, 593 pages. In Very Good condition in a Very Good slipcase. Slipcase in brown paper. Spine is brown with gold print on black pastedown label. Boards quarter bound with brown leather to spine and brown cloth to boards. Text block has gilt top edge and brown ribbon marker. Illustrated: "With the original illustrations by 'Phiz', George Cattermole, S. Williams, and Daniel Maclise" title page; b&w frontispiece and text illustrations (drawings). "The text and illustrations of this edition reproduce those of the Nonesuch Dickens, published in 1937 by Nonesuch Press" title page verso. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Area, Multi-volume Section. 1410768. FP New Rockville Stock.

[Poetry] FINELY BOUND SECOND EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] x; lxvi; 142 [2]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary red full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, and Gray's Eton memorial and Eton College Chapel stamped in gilt to boards. All edges gilt, and endpapers marbled. Black ink gift inscription to first blank: 'William K.H.R. White | with the best wishes | of his sincere friend | Charles J. Cornish | on his leaving Eton | Midsummer 1847.' Heavy spotting to plates, blanks and facing leaves, otherwise crisp and clean. Spine toned, with some light rubbing and a couple of bumps. Very good. A decidedly deluxe edition of Gray's poetry, with about one third of the volume consisting of a Life of the poet. Likely bound to be used interchangeably as a gift or prize book.

[Poetry] FINELY BOUND FIFTH EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[4] viii; c; 142 [4]. With 15 steel engravings and woodcuts after drawings by Charles Radclyffe, including a frontispiece and vignette title page, each with a tissue guard. Good-sized print on good paper. Contemporary tan full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label, and further gilt tooling to spine. Also with Gray's Eton memorial and Eton College Chapel stamped in gilt to boards. All edges and endpapers marbled. Black ink ownership to first blank. Heavy spotting to plates and facing leaves, otherwise quite clean internally. Much of the gilt decoration on the spine has been rubbed away, but the title label is unaffected. Light wear to binding overall. Very good. A decidedly deluxe edition of Gray's poetry, with nearly half the volume consisting of additional material, including a Life of the poet, some literary criticism, and even a series of 'introductory stanzas' by the Reverend John Moultrie. Likely bound to be used interchangeably as a gift or prize book, it contains no evidence of a dedication or prize inscription.

Leather Bound. Condition: Fine. 5th Edition. 1854. 9 full-page engravings on steel by J. Hinchliff, including a frontispiece portrait of Tasso. 22 in text engravings on wood by S. Williams. Deluxe binding, 5-ribbed Green leather spine and board tips, gold decorations on spine, green cloth boards with gold rule borders, pastel marbled endpapers, top page ends gold gilt. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Unmarked. hinges excellent. No foxing. 500 pages. Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581, which tells a largely mythified version of the First Crusade in which Catholic knights, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, battle Muslims in order to take Jerusalem. The poem is composed of eight line stanzas grouped into 20 cantos of varying length. The poem was immensely successful throughout Europe and over the next two centuries various sections were frequently adapted as individual storylines for madrigals, operas, plays, ballets and masquerades; scenes from the poem were also depicted in paintings and frescoes. Contents: Dedication in verse to Georgiana Duchess of Bedford; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Fourth Edition; facsimile of Tasso's writing; Life of Tasso; List of English Crusaders; Postscript to the Life of Tasso by John Devey (controversy of causes of Tasso's imprisonment and his love affair with Leonora); Canto Summaries; Jerusalem Delivered; L'Envoi (2 page poem). RBR17.