RALPH N WORNUM ED (5 résultats)

Etat : Good. 1848. No Edition Stated. 567 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth with embossed decoration. Contains black and white photographic frontispiece.Expected library inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Prize plate to front pastedown. Ex-libris sticker to front endpapers. Boards have light shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Moderate scuffing to spine. Light rubbing and scuffing overall.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st thus (1885). 567pp + catalogue. Original red cloth with blind borders to boards, gilt VR royal cypher on front board and gilt titles to spine. VG book, binding tight with slight forward lean, cloth covers clean and bright, spine a little darkened, internally excellent. Department of Science and Art of the Committee of Council on Education (West London School of Art) prize bookplate on front pastedown and blind stamp on title page. Pencil name on ffep verso and ink initials on bookplate of English Establishment artist Sir Lawrence Gowing (1918-1991), from whose library this was acquired.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. James Barry; John Opie; Henry Fuseli; Ralph N. Wornum. 567Edition and printing not known. In very good minus brown cloth with blind stamped pattern/decoration to front and back; crest with VR in gilt to front; leather spine with five raised horizontal bands and gilt titles. The boards are very tight, straight and quite clean; some edge-wear. Bright marble patterned end papers; prize plate on front paste down. Bright red shiny cut edges. The text block is tightly bound, square and apart from light marks to prelims and end pages not tanned or foxed. With frontispiece of Fuseli with tissue guard. Very good condition. Without jacket.

Cloth. Etat : Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). First edition. A first edition copy of this uncommon biographical catalogue of Italian painters, with a folding table to the rear. The first edition of this uncommon work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the binder's label of Edmonds & Remnants to the rear paste down. This uncommon work, written by Maria Farquhar, contains biographical information on hundreds of Italian painters, and was intended as a companion to the picture galleries of Italy in the late 19th century. It was edited by Ralph Nicholson Wornum (18121877), a British artist and art historian, who was also the keeper and secretary of the National Gallery of London from 1855 until his death. To the rear pocket is a table of the masters of the schools of Italian painting from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally fairly smart, with shelf wear to the boards and extremities, and an age toned label to the spine. Front hinge is slightly strained but held firmly. Pocket to rear is torn. Internally, firmly bound. The odd spot to pages throughout. The table to the rear pocket is in two pieces, with a few closed tears, but it remains intact. Good. book.

Original Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Three volumes. xxxii, 351; viii, 336; vii, 354 pp. 27 plates, 22 woocuts; 31 plates, 52 woodcuts; 23 plates, 15 woodcuts. Original red cloth with blind-stamped simple border and device to boards and gilt lettering to spines. Spines faded and a little stained. Patch of wear to one lower edge. Scattered foxing. This is a heavy set and may require additional postage if being shipped outside of Europe. Large 8vo.