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High Victorian Design
by Jervis, Simon
Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 300 pages. 344 illustrations, each with descriptive text. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Covers the years 1850 to about 1870, the most productive period for Victorian architects, and the age during which a whole range of arts, including furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and book-binding, took on a new vigor.
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£61.04
Victoriana: A Symposium Of Victorian Wisdom
by Margaret Barton
Duckworth, 1931. Hardcover. Good. 1931. No edition remarks. 157 pages. No dust jacket. Yellow cloth covered boards. Colour frontispiece. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.
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£7.62
Victorian Sourcebook of Medieval Decoration With 166 Full-Color Designs
by Audsley, William & George Ashdown Audsley
Dover Publications. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1991. Softcover. 0486268349 . Dover Pictorial Archive; 12.0 X 9.0 X 0.2 inches; 64 pages .
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£10.17
Victorian England
by G. M. Young
The Folio Society, 2002. Hardcover. Good. 2002. Third Printing. 546 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Blue cloth with blue slipcase. Contains black and white and colour plates throughout. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. White marks to rear board. Slipcase has light edgewear with minor marking to panels. Visible rubbing to surfaces.
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£9.22
Victorian England: Portrait of an Age
by G. M. Young
Oxford University Press, 1964. Paperback. Acceptable. 1964. Reprinted. 219 pages. Paperback book with illustrated cover. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Pencil inscription to half title page. Thumb-marking present. Visible creasing to gutter. Pulling to covers. Paper covers have moderate edge-wear with curling to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Visible marks and scratches overall. Scuffing to edges.
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£3.15
Matthew Arnold
by Arnold, Matthew (edited by James Gribble)
London: Collier-Macmillan,. Paperback. 182pp. From the Educational Thinkers series, this is a wide ranging selection from Arnold's extensive works. The focus throughout is on education and educational theory. Extended introduction by the editor and brief bibliography. Rubbed to edges. Slightly faded. Old price stickers have removed some colour to the front but there are no sticky marks. Good, sound copy. . Paperback. 1967.
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£4.75
Nineteenth Century English Furniture
by Aslin, Elizabeth
New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1962. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. ruby cloth. Very good in worn dust wrapper. 93 pages in text. With 139 plates, four in color, as well as seven illustrations in the text. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P174. "A study of the evolution of 19th-century furniture which analyzes the Gothic and Rococo revivals and traces the influence of architects, designers, and critics. A scholarly survey of a depth and precision that has been confined in the past almost...
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£16.28
The Victorian Catalogue of Household Furnishings
by Introduced by Stephen Calloway
Studio Editions. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1994. Hardcover. 1858911257 . 10.3 X 7.6 X 1.0 inches; 176 pages .
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£12.21
Charles Keene Etcher, Draughtsman And Illustrator 1823-1891
by Emanuel, Frank L
London: Print Collectors' Club, 1935. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. silver boards and black cloth spine in worn as issued glassine dust wrapper. 29 pages in text. 25 x 18 cm. Nineteen collotype plates. Limited edition, copy 85 of 300. Presented as a lecture delivered to the Print Collectors' Club Nov. 1932. One of the great if not the greatest of Punch artists.
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£52.90
An Alphabet Of Old Friends
by Crane, Walter
London & New York: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1895. Stiff Wraps. Orig. stiff wrappers, front cover in decorated frame illustrated in red and black against a delft blue background. Fine. 27 x 23.5 cm. Walter Crane's Picture Books, Large Series: six eight color plates engraved on wood by Edmund Evans, and printed verso or recto with blank backing. Originally published anonymously, these pamphlets proved so popular the public demanded to know the artist. Routledge eventually capitulated in 1873 and issued...
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£162.78
2,100 Victorian Monograms
by Klimsch, Karl
Dover Publications. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1994. Softcover. 0486283011 . Lettering, Calligraphy, Typography; 11.7 X 8.8 X 0.3 inches; 80 pages .
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£13.43
West Hartlepool. The Rise and Development of a Victorian New Town
by Wood, Robert
Hartlepool: Hartlepool Borough Council, 1980. Reprint. Cloth. A fine copy in a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket.. xii, 378 pp. Illus. with 16 b/w plates + maps. 8vo.
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£24.42
Daily Life in a Victorian House
by Wilson, Laura
Puffin. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1998. Softcover. 0140563687 . A book that is used but still very attractive, ; 10.80 X 8.10 X 0.20 inches; 48 pages .
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£16.28
The Counties Of Chester, Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, And Rutland; Illustrated From Original Drawings By Thomas Allom
by T. Noble & T. Rose
London, Paris and New York: Fisher, Son, & Co, 1836. First edition. Contemporary three quarter morocco, marbled boards, backstrip decorated and lettered in gilt. Aeg. Very good. Allom, Thomas. 76 pages. 27.5 x 21.5 cm. 73 plates, line engravings on steel, including vignette title, most with tissue guards. RUSSELL, RONALD (Guide to British Topographical Prints), p.122. "Allom was an architect, a designer of churches, workhouses and a military asylum, but he found time to produce and enormous amount of...
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£101.74
Victoriana : a Symposium of Victorian Wisdom / Edited, and Compiled from Many Original Sources, by Margaret Barton and Osbert Sitwell, with a Frontispiece in Colour by Max Beerbohm and an Introduction by Augustine Rivers and a Preface by Osbert Sitwell
by Barton, Margaret (1897-) Comp. Sitwell, Osbert (1892-1969) Joint Comp
London : Duckworth, 1931. First Edition. Hardback. Near fine copy in the original fine-ribbed, gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 157 pages; Description: 157 p. : col. Front. ; 23 cm. Subjects: English literature --19th century --Nineteenth century --Great Britain --Intellectual life --19th century
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£17.58
Victorian Woodturnings and Woodwork
by Blumer & Kuhn Stair Co
Dover Publications. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 2006. Softcover. 0486451143 . Dover Architecture; 10.8 X 8.1 X 0.4 inches; 144 pages .
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£12.21
How To Build, Furnish And Decorate; Consisting Of Elevations and Plans For Houses, Barns, And Every Description Of Outbuilding, Accompanied With Clear And Concise instructions: Also, A Complete Treatise On House Furnishings And Decoration
by Shoppell, R.W
New York: Cooperative Building Plan Association, Architects, 1883. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated taupe cloth lettered in red, beveled edges. Very good. 3 pages in text. Folio, 35 x 28 cm. 700 illustrations, each plan is priced and accompanied with letterpress details. Our copy is No. 9640, attesting that the purchaser can request a loan from the publisher by presenting the aforementioned number. An extremely valuable and well illustrated treatise. Chapters on furniture and decoration; hall...
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£366.26
Victorian England
by G. M. Young
The Folio Society, 1999. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1999. No Edition Stated. 546 pages. No dust jacket. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. Slipcase is missing. B&W and colour illustrations and photographs throughout. Firm binding. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards.
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£5.11
Cardigan
by Thomas, Donald
New York: The Viking Press. 1975. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. Some mild foxing to top edge. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 369 pages. A life of Lord Cardigan of Balaclava. James Brudenell [1797-1868] was the Seventh Earl of Cardigan dragoon, hussar, huntsman, landholder, husband, adulterer and sometime Member of Parliament, and ultimately leader of the Charge of the Light Brigade. The...
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£9.39
Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing
by McLean, Ruari
London: Faber & Faber, 1972. Second edition, enlarged and revised. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave tan cloth with front cover pictorial inset framed in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 241 pages. 29 x 22.5 cm. With 16 new color plates in this enlarged edition, and additional black and white plates. Discusses the introduction of chromolithography, and further mechanical methods of printing. Owner inscription.
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£32.56
The Journal of the William Morris Society Volume XII Number 4 Spring 1998
by Salmon, Nicholas (editor)
London: William Morris Society,. 52pp + xvipp + colour plates. Journal with article and book reviews on various aspects of Morris's life work, politics etc. Also includes 16pp annotated bibliography 1994-1995. This issue's articles include: Murry, Marx and Morris by Peter Faulkner; Circular Designs in Morris's The Story of the Glitering Plain by Pauline Dewan; A Revaluation of Morris's Influence in Japan; The Unmangable Playgoer: Morris and Victorian Theatre. Stapled binding. Very...
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£5.50
Rebecca And Rowena; Illustrated by Richard (Dicky) Doyle
by Titmarsch, Michael Angelo [William Thackeray]
London: Chapman And Hall, 1850. First edition. Boards. Orig. printed boards, yellow endpapers. Aeg. Very good in fine salmon slipcase. Doyle, Richard (Dicky). 102 pages. 18.5 x 14 cm. Illustrated with a host of full page color lithographs. Interior contents clean, head of backstrip lacks one centimeter. The original pale mauve, decorated glossy boards are faded.
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£122.08
Victorian England - Portait of an Age
by G. M. Young
New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Victorian England - Portait of an Age.
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£26.26
Victorian England: Portrait of an Age
by G.M.Young
Oxford University Press, 1937. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1937. Reprinted. 213 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Top textblock edge dyed blue. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Price sticker to flap....
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£17.62
