Chris hammond illustrations (4 resultados)

Condición: Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original light green cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine and the upper panel. 8vo. 7'' x 5''. Contains [xxviii] 310 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Spine age tanned, without any ownership markings and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH LITERATURE.…

1897. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 505pp. Red cloth with green and gilt decoration. Frontispiece, plates. Some minor spotting near the top of the front cover. The embossed gilding is exceptionally bright. Illustrations by Chris Hammond. (Fiction).

First edition thus, first printing. Complete in two volumes. Original green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt to spine and front panel. Upper edges gilt. A lovely, very near fine set, the bindings square and firm with a little softening to the lower spine tips, the cloth and gilt sharp and bright. The contents, with toning to the endpapers are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Small closed tear to the outer edge of Vol. II, p. 295/6. A lovely bright set. 'Sir Charles Grandison', Richardson's final novel is, like its predecessors, 'Pamela' and 'Clarissa', an epistolary novel; and, like Clarissa, it is very long indeed, originally appearing across seven volumes between November 1753 and March 1754. Richardson's portrait of a "Good Man" (after the female protagonists of the earlier novels) has not endured either in reputation or print compared to the earlier novels but, as John Dussinger remarks, "in 1754 Richardson reported to Lady Bradshaigh [the] novel had much more success with the public than 'Clarissa', receiving enthusiastic responses from such diverse readers as William Cowper, who wrote an ode on its behalf, Edward Gibbon, and Lord Chesterfield". Jane Austen, another fan, dramatized scenes from the novel for family performance. Samuel Johnson famously remarked that "if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment", and this two-volume abridgement by the influential critic and literary historian, George Saintsbury, is an attempt to convey the sentiment without the length (to lose some of the bathwater without forfeiting the baby). The edition is also notable for its finely detailed illustrations (both within and adorning the cloth) by the English artist Christiana Mary Demain Hammond (18601900). A member of Hugh Thomson's Cranford School, Hammond's elegant pen and ink drawings are a perfect complement to Richardson's prose. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. First thus. xxviii,389 pp. Bound in green cloth with elaborate gilt stamping. Good+ with lean to spine, wear and splitting to cloth along gutters, a few discreet repairs along spine edges, small wear spot to rear board. An enduringly popular illustrated version of the classic novel.…