Bede cuthbert 07b (1 résultats)
Autres imagesEdité par Little Brown 1893 (1853cp), Boston, 1893
- Couverture rigide
Vendeur : Quiet Friends IOBA, Lyndonville, NY, Etats-UnisQuiet Friends IOBA
Contacter le vendeurVendeur avec une évaluation de 5 étoilesMembre d’une association professionnelle : IOBA
Etat: Occasion - Satisfaisant
EUR 178,26
EUR 2,60 expéditionExpédition nationale : Etats-UnisQuantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)
Ajouter au panierHardcover. Etat : Good. LATER REPRINT. GOOD-VG books. Tan half calf. Bright TEG. Vol 2 upper hinge repaired. Tight, FINE inside. Tipped in 3 page book related ALS. Gilt lettered red & black leather spine labels. Books worn but spotless. With 2nd engraved title page. FINE inside, no aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. Both stay tight…ly closd when stood on their spines. The letter is about books, used book sellers, children's books and book illustrations. Interesting content. "My dear sir, The four books reached us yesterday. They are wonderfully cheap and good.By this post, I have sent some lines concerning ????? to ????? - whch I hope Mr Mortimer will insert. I should advise you to try W. Pearson, second hand bookseller. York St.Covent Garden, for an early copy of "Goody Two Shoes". I note your communication in last week's N. & Q. As a curiosity I send for your acceptance, a copy of the style of books prepared for children a half a century ago. It was presented to my wife, when a child - and she remembers being charmed with it. You will ??serve the whole of it ??? letterpress engraved. I made a note of it - "cucklen ???bch" - some time since, in N.&Q. Believe me Very truly yours, Edward Bradley". A PS concerning his son Cuthbert indirectly dates the letter to 1880. Cuthbert became a prolific painter of the British fox hunting scene. In the PS the father writes of his son's sketch appearing in "The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News". Since the letter has Cuthbert as 19 at the time the sketch was an early work. GOOD-VG(worn but nice boards) books. REPRINT, 8"x5", 500pp. Numerous in text illus. (illustrateur).
