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Condición: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Facsimile Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii, 367p, ill, 31cm. Notes; Facsim. of: ed. published London : Cassell, 1885. Includes index. Subjects; Thames River (England) Description and travel. Thames River (England) History. Thames River (England). England Thames River Description & travel ca 1885. 1 Kg.

Facsimile Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; viii, 367p, ill, 31cm. Notes; Facsim. of: ed. published London : Cassell, 1885. Includes index. Subjects; Thames River (England) Description and travel. Thames River (England) History. Thames River (England). England Thames River Description & travel ca 1885. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. No Jacket. Hbk, 4to, 367pp, profusely illustr, no dj as issued, fine navy cloth with gilt titles and ornament, an excellent, clean, tight and unmarked copy, as new.

Softcover. Condición: Very Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Apsley Pellatt is a name that was of some signi- ficance during the last years of the 18th century and for most of the 19th. It stood for a good deal in the glass trade during its most successful years, when the glass of these islands was much in demand overseas as well as at home. This Paper is an attempt at offering a short history of the Pellatt family and some of its achievements, against a background of the stresses and strains of the contemporary glass industry. But the accent will inevitably rest on the Apsley Pellatt who was the fourth of that name, and who lived from 1791 to 1863 (fig. 1). The father of the first Pellatt with the Christian name of Apsley was William Pellatt (1665-1725), sometime High Sheriff of Sussex and of The Friars, Lewes. He married as his first wife Grace, daughter of Apsley Newton of Southover, Lewes. The Newtons were granted land in Sussex in the reign of Henry VIII, and had emigrated from Cheshire, Sir Isaac Newton was descended from a younger branch of the same fam.

I. No. 104 of 250 copies for an exhibition of his wood engravings at the Ashmolean Oxford in 1981, signed by the author/artist. 32 reproductions of wood engravings by Monica Poole, Joan Hassall, Robert Gibbings, Clifford Webb, John Farleigh, Gertrude Hermes, Noel Rooke, Iain Macnab, Gwenda Morgan, Nora Unwin, Agnes Miller Parker, Buckland Wright and Blair Hughes-Stanton. 67 reproductions of wood engravings, with printed titles and dates, by George Mackley loose on 60 varying sized sheets of paper in pocket at the rear. Sm. folio. II. 137 illustrations, mainly of Mackley engravings from 1937 to 1969 plus one by Monica Poole, they are split up into sections on Botanical engravings, engravings of the sea, countryside, waterways, The Netherlands, rivers, and commercial engravings. Sm. folio. III. 1981 reprint of the 1948 edition on the mechanics of wood engraving b Mackley. 8vo. Special set with all three volumes uniformly bound by E.A. Weeks & Sons in quarter sheep with marbled paper covered sides. Housed in the original sheep backed, marbled paper sided slipcase, gilt lettering on spine. Booklabels of Betty Clark and Felix Dennis. Spine of slipcase marked and slipcase rather rubbed, spines of books mildly marked. A really good, attractive and useful overview of Mackley's work, influences, and teaching of technique.