dobson austin selected annotated (5 résultats)

Vellum. Etat : Fair. First Edition. Frontispiece detached, but present. Covers darkened.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. First edition. Owner name erased, sunning to spine else good plus lacking dustwrapper.

Special binding by the publisher of full white vellum with red titles to spine and cover. Covers bowed and unevenly marked. Mark of wine or coffee to front cover and spine lettering rubbed to cover otherwise VG.

Couverture rigide. Etat : Très bon. 1 volume reliure plein velin ivoire de l'éditeur (full white velum with black and red lettering), frontispice gravé (frontispiece etching), XXIII et 284 pages, papier vergé, petite trace angulaire de mouillure claire sur la marge inférieure du frontispice. Essays selected and annotated by Austin Dobson. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Bel exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ).

Full Morocco. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. xxiii, [1], 284pp, contemporary full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, raised flat bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, author to fourth, remaining panels with two repeated butterfly tools, covers with single fillet border and the same butterfly tools repeated, inner edges gilt, t.e.g. with marbled endpapers. Small bump to head of spine, slightly rubbed to extremities, spine slightly dulled. Internally quite bright and clean. Title in red and black. Zaehnsdorf binding with their medallic gilt stamp to lower pastedown which Broomhead notes was "apparently used, along with other similar stamps, as a quality mark on the sperior bindings produced by the firm" (Broomhead, The Zaehnsdorfs, page 73). Selections from several eighteenth century periodicals including Tatler, Spectator and Connoisseur. Not in Alban Dobson's bibliography of books by Austin Dobson Size: 12mo.