william scrope esq (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. Landseer, Sir Edwin and Charles Ilustrador. Red cloth hardcover with gold lettering on spine. Covers exhibit heavy wear and fraying on corners. Heavy soiling and sunning on edges and spine. Heavy shelf wear and soiling to covers. Previous owners bookplate is neatly glued to the inside front cover. Foxing to ffep's, bfep's, last page of text and title pages in front of book. The text and the multiple very nice full page b&w drawings are yellowed due to age, otherwise clean and unmarked. Inside front hinge is cracked but still firmly attached. Soiling and yellowing to page ends. "Including an account of the nature and habits of the red deer, a description of the Scottish forests, and historical notes on the earlier field-sports of Scotland. With Highland legends, superstitions, traditions, folk-lore, and tales of poachers and freebooters." All of our books are individually inspected and never ex-lib unless explicitly described as such.

Hb. Condición: VG. Estado de la sobrecubierta: None. Sir David Wilkie, Sir Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Cook Ilustrador. Third Edition. Bound in original green cloth on boards. Cover: faint dusting of a little soiling. Spine: gilt titles, head & foot with thin bumping, rubbing and splits. Light wear to fore corners tips. Age browning and soiling to edges. Fep: name 1943. Publishers adverts, frontis, title page vignetts plates and illustrations. Clean content. Binding is VG. Foot rep sticker of Professor, R.M. Gordon, M.D, etc. 317p.

First Edition. London. John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1843. First Edition. Tall octavo (9 1/2 x 7). xvii, [xviii-xx], [1], 2- 298 pp. including appendix. Extra engraved title page and printed title page. Color tinted frontispiece titled "Burning the Water." Thirteen plates in total. Ten color tinted lithograph plates. Three hand-colored plates - one showing six beautifully crafted salmon flies and two of salmon. Wood engravings by L. Haghe, T. Landseer and S. Williams from paintings by Sir David Wilkie, Edwin Landseer, Charles Landseer, William Simson and Edward Landseer. Text illustrations. Eleven chapters in which Mr. Scrope delights his readers with poignant, beguiling prose. The book is elegantly bound in full tan calf with raised hubs, gilt rules and titles within six compartments on the spine, intertwined with gilt decorations. Inside gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. It's simply sophisticated. The book and its contents in fine condition.