Old woking gresham books limited (7 resultados)

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 136 pp. 147 illustrations. Blue cloth with silver lettering to spine in unclipped printed dust wrapper. Minimal bumping and rubbing. Internally clean. Foreword by Sir Hugh Casson and introduction by Monica Poole, RE, a wood engraver deeply familiar with George's work. 0905418905 4to. Profusely Illustrated (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Original blind stamped half leather with marmbled boards, illustrations in b/w, slipcase, 250 numbered copies (this is number 162), 4to. Signed by George Mackley under the copy number on page 7. With 61 loose reproductions of wood engravings inserted in rear pocket.

Hardcover. Condición: gut. 1981. Confessions of a Woodpecker In englischer Sprache. pages.

8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches. xi + [i] + 224 pp. + [4] pp. index + [6] pp. original publisher's advertisements. Bound in navy cloth, gilt, in price clipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has lightly sunned edges and missing section at head of spine; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 308 numbered text figures, in the original on 107 leaves of engraved plates. Decorated by reprint publisher's device on title page. Facsimile reprint of the second edition of 1862, of the manual of seamanship and navigation by Lieutenant George S. Nares, later Vice-Admiral, who had a distinguished naval career as Arctic explorer and surveyor, leading the Challenger and British Arctic Expeditions. The first edition of Seamanship was published in 1860 as The Naval Cadet's Guide: or Seaman's Companion and seven editions were published up to 1897. This new version has an introduction by David R. MacGregor. MARITIME SEAMANSHIP MARITIME 19TH CENTURY FACSIMILES ILLUSTRATED MARITIME.…

1st edition. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine under plain brown, priceclipped dustwrapper with black lettering. 12ins x 8.75ins, 136pp. First 35 pages consist of text and illustrations, thereafter examples of Mackleys work. Contributors to the text include Sir Hugh Casson, Monica Poole, George Mackley himself and Patricia Jaffe. Previous owners bookplate to front pastedown. VG / VG. …

Small folio. First edition. Original blue cloth, gilt. With 137 engravings by George Mackley (and Monica Poole's tribute to him, 'Kentish Wood'). Signed in pencil on the title page. 19 pencil annotations beside the relevant engraving: 'block with P.A.J.'. Some very faint foxing towards the top edge of most pages. Loosely inserted is an A4 sheet promoting an exhibition of the artist's work at the Ashmolean Museum (1981-82). The unclipped d/w is rubbed at the extremities and has a short closed tear to the bottom of the front joint and another very short split to the front top corner. Very good + in very good + d/w. A fine celebration of George Mackley's art. There are sections on botanical engravings, engravings of the sea, countryside, waterways, The Netherlands, rivers, and commercial engravings including book plates. The pencil annotations are by Patricia Jaffé who provides an essay, 'Mackley and the Fitzwilliam', in this book. She knew the artist from the time her husband was appointed Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The book serves as a record of her own collection of the original blocks.…

Small folio. Limited edition. #39 of 250 copies signed by the author/artist. Original quarter tan calf over marbled paper boards, gilt. Illustrated with thirty-two reproductions of wood engravings by Monica Poole, Joan Hassall, Robert Gibbings, Clifford Webb, John Farleigh, Gertrude Hermes, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Noel Rooke, Iain Macnab, Gwenda Morgan, Nora Unwin, Agnes Miller Parker and John Buckland Wright. Sixty-seven reproductions (on sixty sheets of paper) of wood engravings by George Mackley, with printed titles and dates, are loosely contained in a pocket at the back. Covers lightly rubbed and with some patchy stains to the calf. Very faint foxing towards the top edge of most pages. Near fine. Published to coincide with an exhibition of his wood engravings at the Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford in November 1981, this volume contains Mackley's lecture given to the Print Collectors' Club in 1967. (Ruari McLean's name is misspelled 'Rauri' at least twice in the text.).…