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Price: US$16.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1926. First Edition. 227 pages. No dust jacket. Tan cloth with black lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Binding remains firm.Pages & plates remain bright with minimal tanning. Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Walter Shaw Sparrow. A Book Of British Etching From Francis Barlow to Francis Seymour Haden. London: John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, (1926). First Edition. 11 x 8 ¾ in. 227 pages including Index and Glossary, plus ads. Cloth, lacking dustjacket. Near fine condition, no owner's name. 156 etchings are illustrated. Includes foreign etchers working in Great Britain as well as British etchers.; B&W Illustrations; 11 x 8 3/4 inches; 227 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.97 + shipping
Description: Beige linen with brown lettering; 227 pp. plus book advertisements; with 156 etchings; Divided into two parts: Foreign etchers who worked in Great Britain and the British Schools; with indices to each part and a glossary to part 2. Mostly clean and tight text but with some sunning to pages, art museum library markings, and light soiling to covers;
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth with red ink printing. frontis (portrait), ills, index, xiv, 227pp. plus 10pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. British ethers from 1650 to 1925, excluding living artists. Includes 156 illustrations of etchings. A beautiful copy.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 227pgs, ill, ex lib with all of the markings one would expect, slight signs of wear, presentable copy
Seller: Juniper Point Books, Round Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated with 156 etchings. Very good, tan cloth, brown titles, rough cut edges, book, pages and plates are clean, half-title and rear endpaper slightly browned, lacking ffep.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good, sound and tight copy, only normal light wear. Some browning/foxing of text block around first and last leaves. No inscriptions. xvi + 227 pages, numerous plates, notes, glossary, index Size approx. 11.5" by 9". Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 27085.
Seller: Steve Liddle, ABA PBFA ILAB, Bristol, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. B&W illustrations. Condition: DJ nicked & chipped with minor creasing; some smoke soiling to cloth binding; bookplate on 1st pastedown; else very good in good DJ. Pages: xvi, 225 and ads.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: London, UK: John Lane The Bodley Head. Used-Very Good/NO DUSTJACKET. 1926. Hardcover. 4to., 227 pp., bookplate .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: small 4to. cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut. xvi, 227 pages. First edition. Contains illustrations of 156 etchings. The first section of the book deals with foreign etchers who worked in Great Britain and the second section deals with the British schools. Covers soiled. cloth, top edge gilt, others uncut
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.20 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 227 pages, 96 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; pt. I. Nationality and works of art: foreign etchers who worked in Great Britain.--Pt. II. The British schools. Subjects; Barlow, Francis. Haden, Francis Seymour (1818-1910). Etching Great Britain History. Etching. Etching, British History. Prints Great Britain History. Etching, British History. Etching, British. Etching. Great Britain. British etching : history. Etching, British - 17th/20th centuries. Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: xiv [3] 227 pp. With illustrations of a hundred and fifty-six etchings. Folio, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Scattered foxing (including the title page; most pages are clean); very minor use to cloth; tight and sound in a lightly worn jacket with small chips and creases.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$47.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1926. 9.25" wide by 11.5" tall. Light cover soil. Scattered foxing. Otherwise a clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. With half-tone illustrations of 156 etchings. "First Published in 1926" is so stated. A survey of the subject, with many biographies. Index and glossary (including biographical sketches of a good many deceased etchers not mentioned in the text). Original tan-colored cloth . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket. xiv, 227 pages.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 227 pages, illustrated throughout with 156 etchings in b&w. Tan cloth covers with slight wear to edges of spine and light bubbling to front cover. No dust jacket. Sporadic, faint foxing throughout, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 856748
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4to. With illustrations of a hundred and fifty six etchings. In two parts:- Nationality and Works of Art followed by British Etchers. Light brown buckram in a protected dust wrapper. A very good copy. A review of British etching from 1650 to 1925, an exhaustive and interesting contribution to a neglected subject.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiv, 227 pages, 96 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; pt. I. Nationality and works of art: foreign etchers who worked in Great Britain.--Pt. II. The British schools. Subjects; Barlow, Francis. Haden, Francis Seymour (1818-1910). Etching Great Britain History. Etching. Etching, British History. Prints Great Britain History. Etching, British History. Etching, British. Etching. Great Britain. British etching : history. Etching, British - 17th/20th centuries. Genres; Bibliography. History. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.26 + shipping
Description: A first edition history of British etching, illustrated throughout. The first edition of this work from Welsh writer on art and architecture Walter Shaw Sparrow.Illustrated throughout, this volume contains one hundred and fifty six etchings across seventy six plates. Collated, complete.Documenting the fascinating history of British etching from Francis Barlowe to Francis Seymour Haden, Sparrow's work is divided into two parts. The first, titled 'Nationality and Works of Art: Foreign Etchers working in Britain', concerns the influences of foreign arts, containing illustrations from Hollar, Van Dyck, Paul Renouard, and others, and the second, 'The British Schools,' looking at the first pioneers of etching in England; George Stubbs, Paul Sandby, Edwin Landseer, Rowlandson, Girtin and many others.With ten pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to head and tail of back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to first few leaves. Pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$68.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: John Lane the Bodley Head Ltd., 1926. This splendid book reviews the work of British Etchers from 1650 to 1925, 227pp packed with information and many fine prints of the etchings. Book and wtrapper in very good condition, just little loss from wrapper edges (see image) and some tears and creasing but still attractive. Some foxing on early and last pages plus very light occasional pages not unsightly, neat inscription of previous owner on front endpaper. A very nice copy of good reference work. SEE IMAGE DETAILED PHOTOGRAPHS AVAILABLE VIA EMAIL ON REQUEST. First. Boards. Very Good/Very Good. 29 Cms x 23.5 Cms. Hardcover.
Seller: Peter Sheridan Books Bought and Sold, West Molesey, Surrey, United Kingdom
Walter Shaw Sparrow. Nimrod's Hunting Reminiscences. John Lane the Bodley Head, London, 1926.
Price: US$70.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A heavily illustrated, twentieth-century compilation on hound hunting in Great Britain, edited by Welsh hunting and sporting expert Walter Shaw Sparrow. A fascinating compiled work on hound hunting in Great Britain, including various stories and reminiscences of hound hunters through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.Edited by Welsh sporting and hunting expert, Walter Shaw Sparrow.Containing six plates in colour, sixteen plates in half tone, eight hunting maps, and twenty-one other in-text illustrations. Collated and complete.Illustration contributions are credited to the works of James Seymour, Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick.Containing previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Externally, fading to the spine, joints and extremities. Some shelf wear to the boards, and a small amount of loss to the tail of the front board. Previous owners' ink signatures to the front pastedown and front free-endpaper. Internally, front hinge is tender but firm. Binding is firm throughout. Pages are bright and clean. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Walter Shaw Sparrow. Nimrod's Hunting Reminiscences. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1926.
Price: US$70.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A new edition of this fascinating and richly illustrated compilation of hound hunting in Great Britain. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Great Britain comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited and with an introduction by Walter Shaw Sparrow.Containing six colour plates, sixteen plates in half-tone, eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations.Collate, complete.With illustrations credited to James Seymour, Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. The spine is faded and a little bumped and the boards are a little faded. There is a previous owner inscription to the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound and with bright and clean pages with the occasional spot throughout. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. With Illustrations of 156 Etchings. 195 pp. of text. 1 vols. 4to. Original cream cloth, almost fine, minor soiling With Illustrations of 156 Etchings. 195 pp. of text. 1 vols. 4to
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.87 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 227 pages, 73 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm. Notes; Cover title: British etching from Barlow to Seymour Haden. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Pt. I. Nationality and works of art: foreign etchers who worked in Great Britain.--Pt. II. The British schools. Subjects; Barlow, Francis. Haden, Francis Seymour 1818-1910. Etching Great Britain History. Prints Great Britain History. Etching, British. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 4to, 227 pp. Very Good. Hard Covers. Tan cloth covered boards. Dust Jacket Good. Loss at head and tail of spine. In protective mylar wraps. Most pages uncut. B&W plates throughout.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: First edition. 285x220mm. pp. xiv, [2], 227, [1bl], [10pp adverts]. The reproductions of 156 etchings are all present. Original beige buckram, lettering stamped in red to upper cover and spine. Original brick red dustjacket, lettered in black. Some slight chipping to the extremities of the dustjacket but otherwise the binding is in excellent condition. Internally fine, many of the pages unopened. A particularly nice copy of this important and useful survey of the history of British etching beginning with the Flemish and other foreign artists who worked in Britain from the 17th century before looking at the indigenous British Schools from the 17th to 20th centuries.
Seller: Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA, Holt, United Kingdom
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 227 pages, 73 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm. Notes; Cover title: British etching from Barlow to Seymour Haden. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Pt. I. Nationality and works of art: foreign etchers who worked in Great Britain.--Pt. II. The British schools. Subjects; Barlow, Francis. Haden, Francis Seymour 1818-1910. Etching Great Britain History. Prints Great Britain History. Etching, British. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Walter Shaw Sparrow [ed]. Nimrod's Hunting Reminiscences. John Lane: The Bodley Head, London, 1926.
Price: US$115.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A profusely illustrated collection of anecdotes concerning hunting, with maps and colour plates. An illustrated work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Illustrated with six colour plates, sixteen plates in half-tone, eight hunting maps and a further twenty-one in-text illustrations. Collated, complete. A new edition of this interesting work on hound hunting in Britain, comprising of memoirs of masters of hounds and notices of the crack riders and characteristics of the hunting countries of England. Edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, who also provided an introduction for this volume. Illustrated throughout after James Seymour, by Thomas Weaver, T. Woodward, Wildrake, H. Alken, R.B. Davis, Hancock, W.P. Hodges, J. Ramsay, Thomas Phillips, F.C. Turner, John Doyle, and Thomas Bewick. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally fairly smart, with fading to the spine and small marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the occasional spot, and some offsetting to the end papers. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Sparrow, Walter Shaw. A BOOK OF BRITISH ETCHING. John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1926.
Price: US$201.54 + shipping
Description: from Francis Barlow to Francis Seymour Haden. With illustrations of a hundred and fifty-six etchings. Pp. xvi+228(last blank)+[10](advertisements), frontispiece, plus 76 plates, indices, glossary; tall demy 4to; beige buckram, lettered in black, very faintly soiled; top edges brown, others uncut; frontispiece a trifle creased, some light foxing; John Lane The Bodley Head, London, 1926. First edition.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$233.35 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Frontispiece, 227 pp., with illustrations of 155 etchings. Original cloth. Front hinge tender.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan