Hampshire Isle Wight Illustrated an (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. With two hundred and eighty-six specially prepared photographic process illustrations: In One Volume (illustrator). 1st Edition. Faded and water damaged red cloth binding with some rubbing to spine edges and corners. Minor localized loss at the centre of the spine Firmly bound and clean inside with some tanning to the page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. MASSIVE FOLIO SIZED BOOK.VG HARDBACK.BEAUTIFUL BROWN DECORATED LEATHER SPINE AND LEATHERETTE SIDES.massive book requiring extra postage for non uk address Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. A superbly produced, sumptuously illustrated and authoritative account of the Royal Hampshire Regiment and related military units from 1702, as the 37th Regiment of Foot (North Hampshires), to 1992, when the Royal Hampshire Regiment ceased to exist and its troops amalgamated with the Queen's Regiment to form the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment. Containing 650 magnificent illustrations of badges. The author has written an excellent history, with great detail of regular and wartime battalions, militia, volunteer infantry, yeoman cavalry, artillery volunteers, militia and territorials, Isle of Wight Rifle Volunteers, Volunteer and Militia Engineers, Volunteer Infantry, Territorial Force, Cadets, Officers' Training Corps and Combined Cadet Force, the 11th Jersey Battalion, Medical Corps and Related Services, Cloth Formation signs etc etc. A high quality book. Size approx 30 x 22 cms. See photographs attached. * Price now reduced by £10! (GA). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to (21.2 x 27.5 cms); 256 pages; illustrated with 286 "specially prepared photographic process illustrations"; hardback: beautifully bound in a recent black half-leather (morocco) binding, with marbled paper-covered boards; outwardly in very fine condition; contents slightly creased (knocked) at top corner, page edges browned, and first (blank) page also browned, but otherwise also very good; on the last original page there is a newspaper cutting pasted in, on the Gosport railway station, and there are two loose newspaper cuttings (date-stamped 1954) on Osborne House. Originally published in parts, this is a photographically illustrated guide to the towns and major villages of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Signature on the title-page of the Rev.L. Lidbetter, of St. Paul's Vicarage, Southampton, contemporary with the original book. A really lovely copy, with no blemishes to the covers, which would look superb on any bookshelf.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition. 4to. 256pp. Numerous bw photos in text appears complete. PublisherÕs brown cloth covers, simulated half leather binding, gilt lettering tospine. Original white eps. Covers : sl shelf rubs top/bottom of spine & corners else very clean & bright. Contents : very clean & tight & unfoxed. Bright attractive copy. VG+.

Leather. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Four popular works by the English artist, cleric and author, William Gilpin. Uniformly bound in smart full calf. Four popular works by William Gilpin. Uniformly bound in smart full calf with gilt detail. William Gilpin was an English artist, Church of England cleric, and author. He is best known for his works of travel writing and topography, as well as for being one of the first users of the term, 'Picturesque'. He had a keen interest in aesthetics, and outdoor scenery. This set comprises of: 'An Essay on Prints', the fifth edition. One of Gilpin's most renowned and influential works, in which he discusses his principles of aesthetics and defines the picturesque. With one page of publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. 'Observations on the Western Parts of England, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; To Which are Added, A Few Remarks on the Picturesque Beauties of the Isle of Wight', the second edition. One of Gilpin's popular travel works. With eighteen full-page plates. With one page of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Collated complete. 'Remarks on Forest Scenery, and other Woodland Views, Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty', the third edition. Volume two only, of the original two volumes. Illustrated with scenes of New Forest in Hampshire. With fourteen full-page plates and a folding map. Collated complete. 'Observations on Several Parts of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. Also on Several Parts of North Wales; Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty, in Two Tours, The Former Made in the Year 1769. The Latter in the Year 1773', the first edition. Published by Gilpin's trustees, for the benefit of his school at Boldre, where Gilpin worked. With nineteen full-page plates. Collated complete. Each volume has a bookplate for one, 'William Charles Smith', to the front paste-down. Uniformly bound in full calf. Externally, very smart with some rubbing to the extremities and marks to the boards. Spines are darkened. Some loss to the leather of the front board and lower spine of the 'Norfolk Tour'. The rear joint of, 'Western parts of England', is starting but still firm. The lower rear joint of, 'Forest Scenery', is cracked but firm. The rear hinges of, 'An Essay on Prints', 'Norfolk Tour', and, 'Western Parts of England', are starting but still very firm. Front hinge of, 'Norfolk Tour', is strained but firm. Bookplate to the front paste-downs of each volume. Light offsetting to the edges of the free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages lightly age-toned but otherwise generally bright and clean with light spotting throughout. Offsetting surrounding the plates in the illustrated volumes. Closed tear of about one inch to the folding map on page 51 of, 'Forest Scenery'. Pencil annotations to page 60 of 'Forest Scenery'. The front blank of, 'Forest Scenery', is loosening Very Good. book.

4to, hardback, 351pp. Good condition. No dustwrapper. Green cover with white lettering, title and publisher at front and adverts at rear. Spine unmarked. General wear, bumped, head and foot of spine chipped, flecked, several splash marks to upper right front, scratch has chipped the surface intermittently across 1.5in at centre rear. Spine bubbled, rear hinge cracked with upper section a little bruised. Page edges foxed and age-toned. With many advertisements, and many b&w photographs in the text, which is printed in two columns. Contents good, clear and bright. This item is heavy and may attract additional postage. Pictures available on request.