Park Forest by Harding (4 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and faded. Slight foxing. 550mm x 370mm (22" x 15"). [52pp]. 26 b/w plates. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. Cerise hardback cloth cover with green leather spine.

FIRST EDITION. Folio. (54 x 36 cm.) Contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt decorated panels, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Lithographed title, list of contents and 25 tissue-guarded full page lithographed plates printed by Hullmandel on "adhered" paper (as normal). Light foxing to first 4 and last leaf, contents generally very good, binding lightly rubbed but generally sound and attractive. First and only edition and a book of considerable importance, "the first publication with all the plates in lithotint" to quote Michael Twyman. "Harding was the undoubted master of the process of lithotint.[The Park] is a work of landscape rather than topography and consists of 26 plates (including title) of trees in their appropriate landscape settings. the edition was 1000 copies. All the plates are printed in black with a tint stone of the usual buff colour and are lettered 'Printed with [or from] C. Hullmandel's Patent.' Instead of India paper the lithographs are printed on what is described on the title-page as 'Smith and Chapman's adhesed paper,' which appears to have been mounted during printing in the normal matter" (Twyman, Lithography, pp. 216--218).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Illustrated with 25 plates, plus vignette title page. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fair. Publishers quarter morocco and dark green moire with gilt lettering to front and spine and emblematic gilt border to text on front. Covers bumped and worn around edges and slightly abraded and marked. Missing a few inches from the spine head and about 4" from the spine tail. The title page has a corner detached but present - as pictured (from the verso of the leaf). The cheap gutta-percha has rotted leaving the contents of the casing loose within, which has in turn caused a little dog-earring and dust marking to exposed fore-edges of plates. There is a dampstain to a corner of a few of the plates, a closed tear to the blank margin of another, a little light dirty marking to the blank margins of another and some tearing to a couple of the tissue-guards. Slightly foxed throughout.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering.