Wright Rev Allom Thomas (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ. 1988 Edition. With previous owner's bookplate, otherwise a fine hardcover copy, no DJ, red spine. A lovely collection of 60 etchings and with a 7 color plate supplement. From the 1859 edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. John Nicholson Ltd, Hong Kong (second impression, 1989). Landscape-format hardcover. Some light foxing / spotting to top edge of text block but overall this book is in very good condition with clean, unmarked pages which are free from notes and underlining and minimal wear to dustjacket which has been covered with clear dustjacket cover. Not an ex-library copy. Dispatched from UK within three days.

Full Calf. Condition: Good. Text by Wright & illustrated. Partial loss to spine ends. Internally generally clean.

Hardback. Condition: Good Plus. 1st Edition. Complete set: Volumes I, II and III plus the Supplemental Volume VI. Bound in two. Half green calf leathers binding with pebbled cloth boards. Spines with five raised bands, blind decoration, morocco title label. Red speckled page edges. Heavy fading to spines, a little light marking to boards. Excellent solid bindings with no cracking to joints. Foxing to text and plates, heavier to the first and last few pages. Water stain to the frontis in Volume I. Engraved title page followed by letterpress title page for each volume. Overall condition is Good Plus. Size: 9 x 11 inches (22.5 x 28 cm).

Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Thomas Allom Esq. (illustrator). Two volumes in one: Vol 1 and Vol 2. Four raised bands and ornate gilt titles and decoration of leather spine. Leather corners and spine show light edge wear. Darkened canvas cloth front and back. Marbled end papers. Page edges gilt all around. 62 full page steel engravings all with protective tissue intact. 1845 date is a guess since no date is given. Illustrations all on heavy weight paper show some foxing but mostly on outside of white margin.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Thomas Allom (illustrator). sans date(vers 1850) VOLUMES 1 & 3 comportant chacun 32 gravures(piqures de rouille principalement sur les marges) reliures usagées,le premier cahier du vol 3 se detache les 2 volumes sont neanmois complet.

Couverture rigide. Condition: bon. RO30331820: Non daté. In-4. Relié cuir dos-coins. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos frotté, Papier jauni. 80+60+63+228 pages. Texte en anglais. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, hors texte. Plats et contre-plats et tranches jaspés. Coins frottés, émoussés. Epidermures sur les plats. Accrocs au dos, dos frotté. Nombreuses rousseurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, & Co., The Caxton Press., [1850], First Edition. Vol I ONLY of a two volume set. Half leather binding with buckram cloth boards, gilt titles to the spine, gilt page edges, rubbed and worn, with illustrated and letterpress title pages. Vol I 152pp with 73 plates including the title page and frontispiece. Provenance: signature for Francis Leteux to the front. Approximately 11 inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition structurally sound, worn marked and scratched leather, gilt titles. Joints good condition rubbed and worn. Corners good condition bumped rubbed and worn. Boards good condition buckram cloth and leather boards, rubbed marked and worn. Page edges good condition top edge darkened, all other edges gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition yellow, tanned and marked. End papers good condition yellow, tanned and marked. Title good condition tanned and foxed. Pages good condition damp stained, tanned and gently foxed throughout. Binding good condition sound. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: [1850] Binding: Hardback.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Thomas Allom; Eugene Lami (illustrator). A smart four-volume pictorial survey of nineteenth-century France, offering Thomas Allom"s and Eugène Lami"s drawings with vivid descriptive texts by Rev. G. N. Wright and M. Jules Janin. In the publisher's original cloth bindings with gilt.Complete in four volumes. Undated. Dated here using Jisc from copies held at the Hathi Trust Library and the National Library of Scotland.Volumes I, II, and III, are illustrated with 30 engraved plates, a frontispiece and a vignette title page. The fourth supplementary volume features 34 plates alongside the frontispiece and vignette title page. Collated, complete.A richly illustrated four-volume celebration of France"s scenery, architecture, and social life. The first three volumes feature drawings by Thomas Allom and text by Rev. G. N. Wright. The supplemental fourth volume, France Illustrated: Comprising Summer and Winter in Paris, features drawings by Eugène Lami with text by M. Jules Janin, offering a lively view of Parisian society and seasonal life.Thomas Allom (18041872) was a British architect, topographical illustrator, and founding member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, celebrated for his engravings of European and Oriental scenes. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.Externally, smart. Slight fading to spines. The odd minor handling mark to boards with one or two spots of damp staining. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot, heavier to first and last few leaves and fore edges. Very Good. book.

4 volumes in 2. 4to. pp. 72 [Life of Kang-He]; 96; 72; 68; 52; 4 engraved titles, 124 full page steel engraved plates. Contemporary half morocco, all edges gilt, a bit scuffed, but sound; the plates are remarkably clean in this copy,

4 volumes bound in 2. Large 4to. (28 x 21 cm). Contemporary full pebble-grained red morocco, sides richly gilt with foliate panel design, spines in six compartments with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In total 128 steel-engraved plates including 4 engraved vignette title-pages, all with tissue guards. I: pp. 96, with additional engraved title ('China, its scenery, architecture, social habits, &c. illustrated') and 31 plates; II: pp. 72, with additional engraved title and 31 plates; III: pp. 68, with additional engraved title and 31 plates; IV: pp. 56, with additional engraved title and 31 plates. Light foxing to some of the plates, a little toned, some light shelfwear, overall a very good copy in particularly handsome red morocco bindings. Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted topographical artist, at a time of increased interest in China, presented the Western world with the most complete portrait of China and Chinese culture up to the middle of the nineteenth century. Captioned in English, French and German, the plates encompass Hong Kong, Beijing, Nanjing, Macao, Guangzhou, and Xiamen, among other locations, and depict, inter alia, harbours, temples, palaces, mountains and rivers, military engagements, punishments, the cultivation of tea and rice and the manufacture of silk, the Great Wall of China, cat merchants, and 'playing at shuttlecock with the feet'. As well as his own observations, Allom includes some images based on the work of earlier artists such as Lieutenant Frederick White, R.M., Captain Stoddart, R.N. and R. Vaughan. The text was by George Wright, a protestant missionary who had spent a considerable time in China. Cordier 80-81; Lust 363; Lowendahl 986.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ALLOM, Thomas (illustrator). Exhibiting its Landscape Scenery, Antiquities, Military and Ecclesiastical Architecture. Not dated, but c. 1860's. 2 volumes. Beautiful black full leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and covers. Stunning books. 0.

Condition: Good. 4to. 21.1 x 27.2 cm. 4 volumes bound in 2 . Half-brown morocco with small morocco corners, embossed percaline covers, smooth spine decorated (contemporary binding).128 plates engraved on steel from drawings made on site by Thomas Allom, including 4 engraved titles. Complete. Very good. Cordier 80-81; Lust 363; Lowendahl 986. OCLC shows no complete sets of the first edition.

First Edition. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. [4], 96; [5], 6-72; [5], 6-68; [5], 6-56; 128 engraved plates including engraved vignette title pages; contemporary diced russia, gilt-paneled spine in 5 compartments, labels wanting in 2, a.e.g.; extremities rubbed, some minor peeling of the leather, vignette title and frontispiece in volume I a little spotted, and very occasional light spotting throughout; in all, a good, sound, and clean copy. Allom's engravings, after drawings from Staunton's collection, show many places in the interior of China which were new to Western eyes, and it was considered "the best-known nineteenth-century work on the subject" (ODNB). Cordier, Sinica, 80-81; Lowendhal 986; Lust 363.