VERY GOOD HARDBACK IN GREEN CLOTH GILT EMBOSSED ON SPINE AND FRONT BOARDS. PROTECTIVE PLASTIC DUSTWRAP. 1ST EDITION. 64 COLOURED PLATES EACH SET WITHIN LINE BORDER. FRENCH TEXT.
OBLONG FOLIO SIGNED BY RENI-MEL NUMBERED LIMITED EDITION THIS BEING NUMBER 117 OF 300 ON CHIFFON PAPER. 25 ENGRAVINGS OF SCENES TAKEN AT THE FRONT PROTECTED BY TISSUE GUARDS. BEAUTIFULLY BOUND IN FULL MOROCCO BY SANGORSKI AND SUTCLIFFE. RENI-MEL ( 1893-1960) WAS THE OFFICIAL ARTIST OF THE FRENCH MINISTRY OF WAR.
VERY GOOD COPY BOUND IN MODERN HALF LEATHER AND MARBLED BOARD. NEW ENDPAPERS – 23 PAGES. ‘OCCASIONED BY A LETTER FROM HIS LORDSHIP TO THE VICE-CHANCELLOR OF OXFORD IN CONVOCATION TO WHICH IS PREFIXED HIS LORDSHIPS LETTER’. THE LETTER IS FROM SOME ‘OXFORD ELECTORS’.
TWO VOLUMES 24 mo. (8 by 14 cm). FULL VELLUM pp. 456 376. GILT DECORATION TO THE SPINES. SOME WEAR TO THE LABELS BUT VERY GOOD CLEAN AND TIGHT. ITALIAN TEXT.
FIRST EDITION TWO VOLUMES QUARTO FULL CALF. RAISED BANDS RED AND GILT LABELS. pp 670 823. FRONTIS. OF BYRON TO VOL. 2. HINGE OF VOLUME 1 A LITTLE WEAK WITH A SPLIT BEGINNING TO THE BOARD. SOME FADING TO THE BOARDS. VERY CLEAN. A NICE SET.
SIX VOLUMES COMPLETE IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE TO EACH VOLUME. ENGRAVED FRONTIS TO THREE VOLUMES FACSIMILIE HAND-WRITTEN LETTER I N VOL.1. SOME FOXING TO THE PRELIMS. THEN CLEAN AND TIGHT. VERY SCARCE.
LIMITED EDITION OF 525 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 503. QUARTO BOUND IN HALF VELLUM OVER BLUE BOARDS. T.E.G. GILT ARMORIAL CREST TO FRONT BOARD GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE. FRONTIS. PLUS 7 PLATES AND A FACSIMILIE LETTER. ARMORIAL BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTEDOWN OF GODFREY STAFFORD BOSTOCK HIGH SHERIFF OF STAFFORDSHIRE. THE VELLUM SPINE HAS DARKENED BUT VERY GOOD AND VERY CLEAN. SCARCE.
SERIES 1 2 AND 3. VOL. 3 IS A FIRST EDITION THE OTHERS LATER EDITIONS. IN ORIGINAL DARK GREEN CLOTH GILT TITLES. SERIES 1: ON THE CHOICE OF A GUN. SERIES 2: THE PRODUCTION PRESERVATION AND KILLING OF GAME. SERIES 3: A SHORT NATURAL HISTORY OF BRITISH WILDFOWL FOXING TO PRELIMS ONLY. SLIGHT WEAR TO BOARDS BUT VERY GOOD SET.
LIMITED TO 300 COPIES SMALL OCTAVO QUARTER LEATHER OVER RED MARBLED BOARDS MARBLED ENDPAPERS TOP EDGES GILT. THE TOP 4 CM OF THE SPINE HAS LOSS OF LEATHER AND THE SPINE RUBBED OTHERWISE A VERY GOOD COPY. RATHER SCARCE.
VERY GOOD COPY – DUSTWRAP IS SLIGHTLY WORN. LEWIS CARROLL HAS BEEN A POPULAR AUTHOR FOR A LONG TIME. HIS ALICE BOOKS ARE AMONG THE WORLD`S MOST READ MOST FREQUENTLY QUOTED AND MOST REGULARLY TRANSLATED WORKS. DESPITE THIS POPULARITY STUDIES OF CARROLL WERE INFREQUENT UNTIL 1960 THE YEAR MARTIN GARDNER PUBLISHED HIS ANNOTATED ALIVE. SINCE THEN CARROLL SCHOLARSHIP HAS BURGEONED.
Author:
GUILIANO EDWARD
Place, Publisher, Date:
1980 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA AND THE LEWIS CARROLL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF VIRGINIA, CHARLOTTESVILLE.