Bees, Architecture, The Sea-Shore and Ships and Sea-Faring

Ellison Hawks; Gladys Wynne; Arthur O. Cooke; Janet Harvey Kelman; Theodore Wood

Published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. [1912-33], London, 1912

About this Item

A four volume set of works from the 'Shown' series, all beautifully illustrated with numerous plates, and discussing topics such as architecture, ships, bees and the sea-shore. The 'Shown' edition from the 'Shown to the Children' series, edited by Louey Chisholm.Illustrated with a coloured frontispiece and forty-eight coloured plates to 'Sea-Shore', a monochrome frontispiece, vignettes and forty-four monochrome plates to 'Architecture', a colour frontispiece, vignettes and forty-eight monochrome plates to 'Ships and Sea-Faring', and a coloured frontispiece and thirty-eight plates, both in colour and monochrome, to 'Bees'. Collated complete.A four volume set.This set features a collection of works from Nelson's 'Shown' series which aimed to cover a range of interesting topics and educate young people, with many beautiful illustrations throughout. This collection includes; 'Bees', 'Ships and Sea-Faring', 'Architecture' and 'The Sea-Shore'.In the publisher's original cloths with plates to the front boards.Undated, dated by copies held institutionally. In the publisher's original cloth, lacking original dust wrappers. Externally excellent to 'Sea-shore' with only slight shelf wear, and very smart to the rest with slight bumping and minimal rubbing to the extremities, the odd very minor mark to the boards, and a tidemark to the plate to the front board to 'Bees'. Offsetting and a past owner's ink signature to the front free pastedowns. Internally generally firmly bound with plate xxx disbound but present to 'Bees', minimal age toning and the odd spot. Very Good Indeed.

Seller Inventory # 924Z4

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bees, Architecture, The Sea-Shore and Ships and Sea-Faring
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd. [1912-33], London
• Publication Date: 1912
• Binding: Cloth
• Illustrator: Percy Billinghurst; Janet Harvey Kelman et al.
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good Indeed
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Naval & Military History