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ria9781403992369_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin Habermas and Mouffe Ellison's ideas of proactive and defensive engagement and Turner's 'sociology of the body' Bec hardcover
B9781349543526Paperback / softback. New. Drawing on new empirical research with disabled people in the UK and considering the work of theorists such as Berlin Habermas and Mouffe Ellison's ideas of proactive and defensive engagement and Turner's 'sociology of the body' Beckett proposes a new model of 'active' citizenship that rests upon an understanding of 'vulnerable personhood'. paperback
0483153877.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
0483153877New. Brand new and still unused unknown
0267193998.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1852028146London: Bradbury Agnew & Co 1852. Octavo. hand-colored frotispiece and nine other hand colored plates pictorial title page in red and black xii 308 pages. In the middle of the 19th century there was a taste for humor with issues of Punch and in books by Lewis Carroll and Gilbert A Beckett which often had symbolical or allegorical overtones. The puns in this volume often bring a hidden delight along with the ten etched engravings by John Leech all of which are handcolored. Cicero Denouncing Cataline is issued as a frontispience instead of at the end of the book. Bound in 3/4 red polished calf over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled raised bands with lettering gilt and compartments fully gilt decorated edges rubbed. A clean bright copy without foxing names or bookplates. Bradbury, Agnew & Co unknown
19032263572Archibald Constable and Co Ltd 1903. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Edges rubbed hinges beginning to loosen ink name on front endpaper. 1903 Hard Cover. 333 3 pp. 8vo. A biographical account of the family behind Punch magazine who were contemporaries of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray. Archibald Constable and Co Ltd hardcover books
106004London: Published at the Punch Office 85 Fleet Street 1847-8. Two vols 8vo. xii 1-320; xii 1-304 pp. title-page printed in black and red ten hand-colored etchings and 120 woodcuts to each volume including frontispieces. Contemporary half dark-blue calf ruled in blind marbled paper boards backstrip lettered and ruled in gilt. Scattered foxing and damp stains to both volumes backstrip has some minor chips and boards are a bit rubbed; otherwise a good copy with lovely color plates. Bookplate of H. V. Harris to first pastedown in both volumes. § First edition illustrations by John Leech. This extremely popular work was originally printed in parts. Gilbert Abbott À Beckett 1811-1856 was a comic writer and police magistrate The Comic History of England is one of his best known and widely reprinted works. His friends and contemporaries including Charles Dickens Douglas Jerrold George Cruikshank Sheridan Knowles and others. Published at the Punch Office hardcover books
1851800541851. LEECH John. A BECKETT Gilbert Abbott. THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. Illustrated by John Leech. London: Bradbury Evans and Co. 1851. First edition bound from original parts. Illustrated with 10 full-page hand-colored steel etchings and with smaller wood engravings in text. Octavo. xii308 pp. Full calf skillfully rebacked with decoratively gilt-tooled spine with two green lettering pieces laid-down. Inside dentelles gilt green coated endpapers with bookplate on front pastedown. An attractive copy with only slight darkening of spine and edges of boards. Two leaves have short tears at edges and near the end there is a shallow dampstain at the top edge of some pages which does not affect text or illustrations; otherwise the interior is quite clean. Eight of the nine front wrappers from the original parts issue have been bound-in at the end missing only the cover for number six along with some of the advertisements such as 2 of 4 pp. of "Comic Rome advertiser no. 1 May 1851" and the 16 p. "Guild of Literature and Art. Prospectus of a new endowment" from the first issue and a couple of other slips advertising a new work by Dickens and Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour. However the advertisements are not bound in order. Comic versions of serious subjects with appropriatly humorous illustrations became popular beginning in the 1840s. This work contains lovely and witty illustrations by John Leech one of the most popular artists of his day. Tooley 298: "More rare than the Comic History of England.". unknown books
185194242London: Bradbury Agnew and Co. Ld 1851. leather edges gilt five raised bands gilt lettering on spine. Guild of Women-Binders. 8vo. leather edges gilt five raised bands gilt lettering on spine. iv xii 308 pages. First edition Tooley 298. Not in Field. Illustrated by John Leech with 10 full-colored etchings and 98 woodcut vignettes. John Leech was a staff artist for "Punch" from its early issues in 1841. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett was one of the original staff members for "Punch." One of the Victorian era's best-known comedies. This particular copy is bound in full Chocolate Crushed Morocco both covers blind ruled with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Title in gilt lettering on the spine between the first and second band from the top. Guild of Women-Binders ticket in gilt on the lower leather turnin on the front pastedown. Two faint scratches on the front cover. Spine lightly sunned. Leather offsetting onto free endpapers. Moderate foxing on preliminary pages with a majority of the text and colored plates being uneffected. Title page has small chip in top right corner. The binding while austere but as one would expect from the Guild of Women-Binders it is well executed. Bradbury, Agnew and Co. Ld unknown books
1847313830London: Published at the Punch Office 85 Fleet Street 1847. First edition. 20 colored etching and 120 woodcuts by John Leech. xii 320; xii 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Bound in half calf with gilt spine and marbled paper boards. Loss of text on plates due to trimming in rebinding else very good. Leech John. First edition. 20 colored etching and 120 woodcuts by John Leech. xii 320; xii 304 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street unknown books
1869311016London: George Bell & Sons York Street Covent Garden 1869. New edition. Profusely illustrated by Cruikshank. viii 277 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half blue morocco with original covers bound in spine laid down by Root & Son. Cruikshank George. New edition. Profusely illustrated by Cruikshank. viii 277 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "To Chas. Kent Esquire with the best regards of George Cruikshank July 4 1870." opposite engraved title. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden unknown books
1852028146London: Bradbury Agnew & Co 1852. Octavo. hand-colored frotispiece and nine other hand colored plates pictorial title page in red and black xii 308 pages. In the middle of the 19th century there was a taste for humor with issues of Punch and in books by Lewis Carroll and Gilbert A Beckett which often had symbolical or allegorical overtones. The puns in this volume often bring a hidden delight along with the ten etched engravings by John Leech all of which are handcolored. Cicero Denouncing Cataline is issued as a frontispience instead of at the end of the book. Bound in 3/4 red polished calf over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers all edges marbled raised bands with lettering gilt and compartments fully gilt decorated edges rubbed. A clean bright copy without foxing names or bookplates. Bradbury, Agnew & Co unknown books
1024025489.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
18338666London: W. Strange. Poor with no dust jacket. 1833. First Edition. Boards. boards are very won & soiled. Some dodo has taped a page in the front with a long quote from the Encyclopedia Britannica on the magazine and Seymour the illustrator.The title page preface and the first issue 5 Jan 1833 are taped in. There is a break in the binding following. The balance of the issues are "very good" or better with another break in the binding at the last hinge. The "poor" grade for the book is primarily due to binding problems not content. The last issue is #107 for 21 December 1833. Still pretty funny after most of 200 years.; Magazine; 9x11 1/2" . W. Strange hardcover
1845016699The Punch Office London 1845. Edition Unstated . Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Cruikshank George. Size: 9 5/8" x 6 7/8". . Bound by Root and Son. Full leather with six-compartment spine with stamped and gilded Cruikshank characters all edges gilt gilt inner dentelles marbled end papers 284 pages complete with 12 steel engraving plates illustrated title numerous in-text illustrations. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed. Spectacular binding and condition. Illustrator: Cruikshank George. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 3 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 016699. . The Punch Office hardcover
18451287London: Published at the Punch Office 92 Fleet Street; and Sold by All Booksellers 1845. Leather bound. Very good. HUMOR SATIRE ILLUSTRATED. George CRUIKSHANK illustrator. 8vo; viii ii1 2-284pp; gilt-borders stamped on dark green calf 5 raised bands on spine maroon leather label; top edge gilt; green marbled endpapers; gilt dentelles; binder's stamp to verso ffep "Bound by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. McClurc & Co."; extra engraved pictorial title-page; original publisher's cloth front cover and spine bound in rear; 12 steel engraved plates wood-cuts and glyphographs in text; rubbing and shelf-wear to boards light age-toning of paper a few spots; very good. Cohn 191. First produced as a series of monthly publications this delightful book of humor satire and illustration comments on the foibles of the human condition. The editor Gilbert Abbot à Beckett 1811-1856 was a British humorist and editor of the Figaro in London and one of the original staff members at Punch. The illustrations of British caricaturist George Cruikshank 1792-1878 are exuberant and often irreverent. Although society language and styles change human nature remains the same and the humor in this volume is relevant today. The binder Joseph Zaehnsdorf 1816-1886 was originally from Austria-Hungary. After apprenticeships in Germany Vienna and Paris he relocated to London. His bindings received awards at international exhibitions including the London International Exhibition of 1862. Published at the Punch Office, 92, Fleet Street; and Sold by All Booksellers unknown
1869311016London: George Bell & Sons York Street Covent Garden 1869. New edition. Profusely illustrated by Cruikshank. viii 277 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Half blue morocco with original covers bound in spine laid down by Root & Son. Cruikshank George. New edition. Profusely illustrated by Cruikshank. viii 277 1 2 ads pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed "To Chas. Kent Esquire with the best regards of George Cruikshank July 4 1870." opposite engraved title. George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden unknown
1845H2292London: Published at the Punch Office 1845. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition 1845. Tall 8vo bound in full polished light brown calf raised bands gilt exta gilt inner dentelles bound by Morrell for John Wanamaker about fine with just a touch of rubbing contents 284 pp with 12 full page steel engraved plates and numerous other illustrations; the plate listed as facing page one has been bound in as a frontispiece facing the engraved title page. Published at the Punch Office hardcover
SKU1024461Palala Press 2015-12-05. hardcover. Acceptable. 6x0x9. This is the original published in 1845 by "The Punch Office" in London; 8vo.; 284 p. clean and unmarked except for faint spidery signature of former owner at top edge of t.p. dated 1850. Fabulous engravings and vignettes by Cruikshank and wonderful articles by many famous Victorian authors usually under pseudonyms; marbled end pages; leather missing from spine and front board is detached and much bumped and rubbed as is back board--thus reducing price greatly. First three pages of front matter are detached but present and the rest of the text block is firm. Please give this treasure the binding it deserves. Palala Press hardcover
1019578580.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1356341136.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
X13A-00538Archibald Constable and Co. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Prelims detached. Archibald Constable and Co unknown
013542London: Bradbury Evans and Co. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Undated. 8vo green pebbled-cloth blind stamped with gilt-pressed vignette front cover and three figures and titles to spine aeg xii 308 ten colored full page steel engravings frontispiece and title page plus numerous wood engravings throughout text. Bookplate front pastedown. An exemplar of mid-19thC publishers binding in as nice condition as we have seen. Bradbury, Evans, and Co hardcover
18551267011855. London: Bradbury Agnew & Co c.1855. <br /> <br /> 8vo 2 vols. in 1: xviii 320; 304 pp. Title-page printed in black and red complete with 10 hand-colored steel engravings and numerous in-text wood engravings in each volume including frontispieces. Full tan crushed morocco all edges gilt with original backstrip and upper panel of cloth binding preserved on rear pastedowns. Gift inscription dated 1878 on half title. Binding lightly scuffed and marked faint shadow of bookplate removed from front pastedown occasional light foxing but generally attractive and presents nicely.<br /> <br /> § First edition illustrations by John Leech. This extremely popular work was originally published serially by the Punch Office from 1846-1847. Gilbert Abbott À Beckett 1811-1856 was a comic writer and police magistrate The Comic History of England is one of his best known and widely reprinted works. His friends and contemporaries including Charles Dickens Douglas Jerrold George Cruikshank Sheridan Knowles and others. unknown
