peg woffington (8 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 40 pages. Illustrated. Francis J Murphy "Dublin Trams 1872-1959" / Professor Ethna Byrne Costigan "Peg Woffington" / Seamus de Burca "One Hundred Years of a Dublin Theatre 1879-1979" / C Stephen Briggs "James Henry Underwood: First Dealer in Irish Antiquities" (SL#85).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First Thus. Two volumes. London: Grolier Society, n.d. [c.1905]. Days of the Dandies series. 634pp. Colour portrait, 13 other plates. 100 numbered copies. LA&R 3667. Original black cloth, paper labels, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A very good set. (**PLEASE READ CAREFULLY** - Heavy/overweight item weighing 2.2 kg packed, therefore additional postage will be required - please ask for a prior shipping quote).

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A splendid original antique portrait. Mounted/matted and ready to frame. Very unusual and decorative .

No Binding. Condición: Very Good. A fine original antique view . Mounted - matted - and ready to frame - very good condition - circa 1888 . Mount size approx 8 x 5 inches 22 x 14 cms . Shows a good portrait of Pegg Woffington.

Hardcover. Edition Definitive. 23 x 15.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 5 of 50 for L. Dean Holder and noted as "Edition Definitive" (Printed for the members of the Union Club Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. 1902). Bookplates of Virginia Hawley Holden descendent of the Harriet Beecher Stow family. A series of entertaining biographies for the literary tastes of the time. Frontispieces hand-colored colored with captioned tissue guards in each volume. Wide text margins, interior clean, fresh and perhaps never read. Raised bands decorated in gilt, floral designs surrounded by lacy arabesques. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine. 15 Vols.

Three-Quarter Leather. Condición: Fine. Limited Edition. Complete 15 volume set; Edition De Luxe, this set numbered 990 of 1,000 copies. Collection of ten literary biographies [see below], beautifully bound in an elegant and refined "arts and crafts" style; contemporary three-quarter green morocco, gilt-decorated spines including floral motifs highlighted in red. Top edges gilt, other edges uncut; green and gold marbled end papers. Richly illustrated with hand-coloured frontispiece plates in each volume and, throughout the set, a further 75 b/w plates with captioned tissue-guards. In fine condition with minimal rubbing to extremities. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no inscriptions. Following the Grolier Society's successful Beaux & Belles of England, this collection of entertaining biographies was published including: Lawrence Sterne, Horace Wallpole, Beau Nash, Fanny Burney, Lady Montagu, Peg Woffington, Mrs Jordan, Colley Ciber and Captain Gronow. A fine set, beautifully bound. Size: Royal 8vo (23 x 15.5 cm). Book.

Condición: Very Good. B. Wesley Rand Ilustrador. Edition de Luxe. Two volume set. Half red grain morocco over marbled boards with gilt decoration and particulars to spine. Five raised bands; top edge gilt, other deckle; marbled endpapers. Edition de Luxe limited to 1000 copies, of which this is 328. Hand colored frontispieces with original tissue guard to both volumes. Fold-out replica letter bound in Volume I. Facsimile playbill for Woffington's play The Fair Penitent bound in Volume II. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Publisher's watermark(three stars and three circles in a cartouche topped by a fleur de lis) to all pages. Wear to head of spine on Volume I. No previous owners' names or other markings. 6.25 x 9 inches.

20 x 8.5 inches. Condición: Fine. 20 x 8.5 inches.