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DADAX0571138217Faber and Faber 0000-00-00. hardcover. New. 1.00x1.00x1.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Faber and Faber hardcover
202250615Royal Marines Historical Society Portsmouth 2022. 8vo. with maps and tables; printed wrappers a fine copy. Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publication SP 54. Royal Marines Historical Society, [Portsmouth], unknown
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
D6454Bradbury Evans and Co. n.d. Hardcover. Very Good. Half red morocco and cloth gilt-stamped lettering on spine. With illustrated title-page printed in red and black numerous wood engravings in text and 10 steel-engraved plates printed in full color. A few small scuff marks on spine otherwise a lovely copy with previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down. First steel-engraved plate detached but laid-in and a bit chipped along the edges. <br/><br/> Bradbury, Evans, and Co. hardcover books
216417London: Bradbury Agnew. hardcover. very good. From the founding of the city to the end of the commonwealth. Illustrated title page 10 color plates and black & white illustrations by John Leech 308pp. 8vo 3/4 calf green leather spine label ornately gilt spine marbled boards marbled edges lightly rubbed. London: Bradbury Agnew & Co. n.d. ca. 1860.<br/><br/> Bradbury, Agnew unknown books
123208London: Bradbury Agnew. hardcover. very good. From the founding of the city to the end of the commonwealth. Illustrated title page 10 color plates and black & white illustrations by John Leech 308 pages 8vo 3/4 leather gilt-lettered raised bands t.e.g. tissue guards; lightly rubbed. London: Bradbury Agnew & Co. n.d. ca. 1860. Very good.<br/><br/> Bradbury, Agnew unknown books
WB92126London: Bradbury Evans and Co. Prior owner signatures on front free endpaper. Complete 10 full page full color plates by John Leech. Red morocco spine titling piece with chip missing affecting last portion of author's name. Spine ends and all edges with shelf wear. Green calf dulled to brown on spine with all over gilt decoration. Matching marbled boards end papers and edges. . First Thus. Half-Leather. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by John Leech. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Bradbury, Evans, and Co. 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
1847D4612London: Punch Bradbury and Evans 1847-8. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Complete set of 2 volumes. Lovely dark brown gilt-ruled morocco and blue marbled paper gilt-stamped lettering and detail in compartmented spine all edges gilt. Each volume complete with 10 hand-colored etchings 20 total as well as numerous woodcuts in text. Joints a bit scuffed; corners lightly bumped; otherwise a simply lovely set. <br/><br/> Punch [Bradbury and Evans] hardcover 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
1850D14014London: Bradbury Evans and Co. n.d. c. 1850. Hardcover. Very Good. Half gilt-ruled green morocco and green cloth gilt-stamped lettering and ornament in spine compartments 5 raised bands a.e.g.; complete set of 2 volumes 8vo; pp. xviii 320; 304; with 20 hand-colored steel-engraved plates 10 in each volume numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text; collates complete. Spines sunned; boards lightly rubbed; corners a little scuffed. Internally bright and clean with plates in excellent condition colors remain true. Armorial bookplate of George Burnham Wells on front paste-down of Volume 1. A handsome set. <br/><br/> Bradbury, Evans, and Co. hardcover books
1846WRCAM37115Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1846. 94pp. including 5pp. of publisher's advertisements plus engraved frontispiece and titlepage after George Cruikshank. Dbd. 12mo. Small bookseller's stamp in lower margin of engraved titlepage. Foxed else very good. First American edition of the first part of the brilliant legal satire by Gilbert Abbott àBeckett after the first British edition of the same year. Beckett who here parodies the revered 18th-century jurist William Blackstone pursued careers as both a barrister and a comic writer - he was called to the bar at Gray's Inn in 1841 the same year in which he helped found PUNCH as part of its original staff. THE COMIC BLACKSTONE was published in both its American and British editions in four parts between 1844 and 1846. The printed titlepage in the present copy refers to the work as whole without mention of the parts with 1846 as the publication date while the engraved titlepage states 1844. The publisher's advertisements are dated May 1845. Carey and Hart unknown books
1844245664Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1844. Very Good binding. Cruikshank. The first two parts of the First American Edition bound together dated 1844 and 1845. Brown ribbed cloth binding rebacked with most of original spine and leather title label laid down. Some foxing rather heavy to preliminaries but scattered and moderate thereafter. Very Good binding. Carey and Hart unknown books
1846015195Published at The Punch Office 1846. Book. Fine. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Beautiful Fine Copy In Light Full Brown Leather Six Compartments With Gilt.First Edition1846 Parts 1-IV Gorgeous Copy. Published at The Punch Office Hardcover books
91125London Punch Office Bradbury Agnew & Co. 1846 1st England 1851 1st Rome. Two Volumes. Original monthly issues bound in blue paper covers with black printed lettering and vignettes. Adverts to rears. In later fine red morocco leather slipcase bindings by “W. Zucker Philadelphia.” In very good conditions. With very good box cases. Cases with some minor handling marks some rubbing around bottoms of spines/edges. Original blue paper covers in very good condition. Some minor darkening and rubbing to edges rear cover torn and detached on part 1: Rome. A couple of neat inscriptions to top edges of covers some are rubbed out. Some minor tanning and occasional minor handling marks to pages some minor offsetting adjacent colour plates. Else an excellent set. England: No’s 1-20 in 19 parts No’s XIX & XX bound together. Rome: No’s 1-10 in 9 parts IX & X bound together. Illustrated with 30 hand-coloured engraved plates 20 & 10 respectively. And many smaller B&W illustrations in text. London, Punch Office (Bradbury, Agnew & Co.) 1846 1st (England), 1851 1st (Rome) hardcover
184481249Philadelphia:: Carey and Hart 1844-1845. old gilt-lettered quarter leather. Boards very slightly bowed; slight scuffing to the leather at extremities. 12mo. Engraved frontispiece and title page vignette. Carey and Hart, hardcover
1835137167London: John Camden Hotten 1835-1853. First editions of the first and second series of The Comic Almanack; illustrated by George Cruikshank. Octavo four volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards by Root & Son gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands marbled endpapers all edges gilt ribbon bound in with many illustrations by George Cruikshank and other Artists. In near fine condition. Praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his lifetime British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank illustrated numerous works for close friend Charles Dickens including Sketches by Boz 1836 The Mudfog Papers 1837–38 and Oliver Twist 1838. The Comic Almanacks of George Cruikshank have long been regarded by admirers of the inimitable artist as among his finest most characteristic productions. Extending over a period of nineteen years from 1835 to 1853 inclusive they embrace the best period of his artistic career and show the varied excellences of his marvelous power. John Camden Hotten hardcover
0483153877.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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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
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
18641408839London: Bradbury Evans and Co 1864. Hardcover. Octavo xviii 320 304 pages. In Fair minus condition. Spine is brown with gold print on black banner raised bands. Boards half bound with brown leather to spine and corners and marbled paper to boards; wear to spine caps and edges worn exposed corners toning to spine mild scuffing to leather. Text block has marbled edges and endpapers; bookplate on front pastedown cracked hinges binding is stiff with puckering to pages intermittent damp stain to edges of pages including the color plates. Illustrated: “With twenty coloured etchings and two hundred woodcutsâ€â€” title page. <br /> <br /> NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column Z. 1408839. FP New Rockville Stock. Bradbury, Evans, and Co hardcover
1897291863London : Bradbury Agnew & Co. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Crudely bound in quarter leather over cloth boards. Some slight wear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; tight bright clean and sharp cornered. Missing title page. Physical description; 634 pages. Subjects; Great Britain History. Humour. Satire. London : Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. hardcover
18501349572London: Bradbury Agnew & Co c. 1850. Hardcover. Octavo 308 pages; VG; bound in full red straight-grain morocco by Bayntun gilt border paneled spine with gilt titling lower label detached; mild wear and rubbing; all edges gilt; gilt turn-ins marbled endpaper; original wraps bound in rear;<br /> with 10 colored plates; interior clean; shelved case 12. 1349572. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Bradbury, Agnew & Co hardcover
