Search Results: Art from Stephen Rench

Paris: Chez Charles de Sercy, 1699 Book. Good. Hardcover. A[xx], 540 pages + additional pages numbered *487-490 + the engraved frontispiece. Author not named on the title page, but identified on catalogue records on Library Hub. In remains of old full leather binding - front board and front free end paper completely detached. Ink owner's name to the title page. Pages lightly browned throughout, some slightly heavier browning also..

Scala Publishers, 2012 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 352 pages. Hardback in the original binding, with the dustwrapper. Just light signs of use. This is a heavy volume and extra postage may be required to send it outside the UK.

Rome: Presso Arcangelo Casaletti, 1783 Book. Good. Soft cover. 175, [1], xvi pages. Sometimes found with varying frontispieces - here without. Also this the version with the woodcut arms to the title page rather than the engraved arms sometimes found. In original decorated card covers. Binding though very nearly detached, split internally completely at the rear before the rear end paper and almost detached at the front as well. Wear to the covers and tears to the spine which also has a numbered paper label at the head. Insect damage to the inner margins visible at the front and rear end papers. Light staining throughout. Lists 1362 works of art. At the rear is the 16 page index of artists. few ink and pencil lines to the margins..

London: J. Davy and Sons Printers, 1861 Book. Very Good. Half leather. iv, 78 pages. Catalogue is neatly ruled in red ink - priced and with buyers' names for each lot. In attractive marbled paper covered boards with green leather. Printed paper label to the front board. Armorial bookplate of Frederick Parr to the front pastedown. A number of binder's blanks included at the front and rear..

A Verone - In Verona: Chez Augustin Carattoni Libraire Rue Neuve - Presso Agostin Carattoni Librajo sulla Via Nuova, 1751 Book. Very Good. Full leather. Text throughout in French on the left hand pages and Italian on the right. xxii, [i], 111, [1] pages + 52 plates, including the frontispiece. Some light soiling. Ink inscription to the front free end paper - Mary Anne Blood's book given her by her dear Papa March 23rd 1851. Some pencil writing to the front pastedown. In old full leather, front joint split but holding firmly. Some wear to the leather. .

London: Chez Guillaume Bowyer, 1725 Book. Fair. Disbound. [ii], xii, [vi], 308, [8] pages + plate facing page 265. Here lacking the frontispiece. ESTC T133317, a small paper copy. Bowyer ledgers show 300 ordinary paper and 100 large paper copies were printed. Disbound, front and rear boards detached. Leather missing from much of rear board. Bookplate of Edward J. Poynter to the front pastedown. Slightly dusty in places. A couple of brief ink notes to margins..

London + Norwich: Goose + Griggs, 1891 Book. Good. Hardcover. [iv], viii pages - 71 facsimiles on 69 leaves + their descriptive text, followed by pages numbered 71-76. In the original paper covered boards with cloth spine. Wear and marks. Some tears to the cloth spine. Corners bumped. A very large and heavy volume, End papers browned. Significant extra postage will be required to send it outside the UK..

Cardiff: Oriel, 1995 Book. Good. Hardcover. 39, [1] pages. In the original paper covered boards. Dated in pencil to the foot of page 39 - 13/2/98.Just light wear..

Contemporary Sculpture Center, 2001 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 61, [3] pages. Exhibition catalogue with illustrations. Original printed paper covers. Just light signs of use..

London: Macmillan and Co, 1898 Book. Fair. Hardcover. 32 pages. Bound in cloth covered boards with a leather lettering label to the front board. Binding by Bumpus. Spine faded and lightly browned. The free end papers are very browned. Attached to the front pastedown is a small card with the signature of the author dated 1903. Half title page is torn along the inner edge. Pages lightly browned and creased vertically where once folded. Bound without the original wrappers..

London: John Murray, 1904 Book. Good. Hardcover. xvi, [ii], 264 pages + plates, complete as listed. In the original green cloth, lightly soiled and lightly worn. Corners a little bumped and the spine creased. End papers are browned and this affects adjoining pages. Some light browning to page edges throughout. Brief ink note to page 61..

Evergreen Press, 2014 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xiv, 116, [6] pages + plates and with many tipped in illustrations. Bound in paper covered boards and leather spine. The spine has darkened unevenly. Numbered 48 of the 150 copies printed. Loosely inserted are the original prospectus and order form. A large and heavy volume, extra postage will be required to send it outside the UK..

London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849 Book. Good. Hardcover. xxviii, 443, [1] pages + 10 plates. Plates are spotted and this affects adjoining pages. Some other spotting also. In the original cloth which is unevenly faded and the cloth on the front board is wrinkled due to damp. Many pages still unopened. Inscribed at the head of the title page - Presented to William Saunders, brother-in-law of the Author..

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1975 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 60 unnumbered pages. 500 copies printed, signed by Hoyem below the colophon. Presentation inscription above this to Philip & Dorothy Smith. In the original cloth binding with printed paper labels to front board and spine. Occasional spot to page edges..

London: Nelson, 1964 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. xviii, 429, [1] pages + plates. In the original cloth which has some light fading. With most of the original dustwrapper although this is torn and with a section missing from the head of the spine..

London: Printed for S. Harding on the Pavement St Martin's Lane, 1747 Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. xii, 112, [1], 112-225, [1] pages + 10 plates. ESTC T84861 which notes the same pagination. In old full leather binding with wear and some splitting to the edges of the spine. Lacking the lettering label to the spine. Bookplate of Nevile Rodwell Wilkinson to the front pastedown. Ink initials, perhaps a note of an old price towards the foot of the title page..

Boston: Society of Printers, 1937 Book. Good. Soft cover. 15, [1] pages + 2 plates. In the original brown thin card covers. Light fading and some light creasing. Numbered to the colophon 269 of the 500 copies printed. There is a signature in blue in to the base of the portrait print of the author facing page 8 - there is slight blurring to the edges, so look as though it is a proper signature, but I cannot guarantee that.

London: Chiswick press, 1898 Book. Good. Hardcover. [Colophon] Printed at the Chiswick Press and finished on the 18th day of April 1898. Published by Longmans & Co, Paternoster Row, London. [ii], 25, [1] pages. Loosely inserted printed note states that it was printed in the Golden type designed by Morris for the Kelmscott Press. In the original paper covered boards with narrow cloth spine. The binding is soiled and grubby, the front board is stained. Both the front and rear free end papers are browned. There is wrinkling along the lower edges of all the pages..

Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. ix, [vii], 256 pages + 16 pages of colour plates. Hardback with the dustwrapper which has a lightly faded spine. Vertical creasing to pages 33-42. Just light signs of use..

Stratford upon Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1928 Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. xviii, 93, [1] pages This numbered 203 of the 325 copies printed. Original cloth with a little light bubbling. Page edges untrimmed. End papers lightly browned. .