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Price: US$225.53 + shipping
Description: 4to. 26.6cm, [8], [174] plus 21 leaves of tipped-in coloured plates, including frontispiece. In the original publisher's blue cloth, gilt spine and cover block titles, full ornate gilt decorated with crowns, hearts and a sword, on the spine and upper cover, repeated in blind on the bottom board, with gilt decoration of swords on front and rear paste-downs, design repeated on the fly-leaves. decorative initials; each plate laid down in wide printed border with tissue guards printed with caption titles in blue taken from the text, slight minimal wear on the top and bottom spine edges, very good to fine sound copy, this issue is very scarce.(lt). Howey and Reimer F209. NOT in Aurora. WorldCat does not locate any copies of this issue. The poet, Alfred Lord Tennyson was Poet Laureate of Britain from 1850 to 1892. He chose classical and mythological themes for his epic poems, particularly the legends of Ulysses and King Arthur. His ldylls of the King, first published in 1859, inspired the Pre-Raphaelite artist Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (1872-1945) to paint a series of oils notable for their etherial quality as well as for their details from the natural world. Ms. Brickdale was part of the Croydon artistic society that included G.F. Watts, John William Waterhouse, John Everett Millais and Byam Shaw, all of whom also painted from Arthurian legends. Three editions of Idylls of the King were produced in 1911: this edition including Canadian imprint, with 21 plates; another edition with twelve plates; and a deluxe, limited edition of 350 copies, signed and numbered.
Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. H. cover and dustjacket art. Nicely illustrated edition of this classic work with plates by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. Very Good, contemporary gift inscription, in Very Good dustjacket, some chipping at spine end areas.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$517.50 + shipping
Description: 4to. First Brickdale illustrated edition. Blue cloth blocked in a design in gilt on the spine and upper board, and in blind on the lower board. 21 exquisite mounted plates by Brickdale in her best style. A near fine copy with only traces of wear at the corners and edges.
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. First Brickdale illustrated edition. Blue cloth blocked in a design in gilt on the spine and upper board, and in blind on the lower board. 21 exquisite mounted plates by Brickdale in her best style. A near fine copy.
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Alfred Lord Tennyson. Idylls of the King. Hodder & Stoughton, 1911.
Price: US$890.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A Limited Edition. 1 of 350 copies, numbered 000 (possibly the Artist or Publishers copy), signed by the Artist. Large 4to (300 × 240 mm), pp. [12], 173, [1], plus 21 tipped-in colour plates, top edge gilt, remainder uncut, original gilt-decorated vellum. Published by Hodder & Stoughton (London), 1911. Original vellum a little rubbed and lightly marked, browning to the endpapers as usual, wanting ties. A very good copy. Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale travelled often to the continent and was clearly influenced by the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century art which she saw on visits to Italy. There were further exhibitions of her works at Leighton House in 1904, with a catalogue containing appreciative remarks by George Frederic Watts, and at Dowdeswell's in 1905 and 1909. She continued her illustrative work, which from about 1905 consisted of both line drawings and watercolours made for reproduction as half-tone colour plates. In 1911 two editions of Tennyson's Idylls of the King (de luxe and popular) were published with illustrations from her watercolours while the originals were on show in another of her one-woman exhibitions, this time at the Leicester Galleries. From that year she taught in the art school in Kensington founded by Byam Shaw. (Oxford DNB.) Please contact us for shipping costs if ordering from outside the UK.
Seller: GEORGE HANCOCK RARE BOOKS PBFA, BATH, United Kingdom
Price: US$1017.62 + shipping
Description: Number 184 of 350 copies, signed by the artist. 'Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale never married, and from 1903 to 1943 she lived with her sister, Kate, who was also unmarried, at 23 Elsham Road, Shepherd's Bush. She travelled often to the continent and was clearly influenced by the fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century art which she saw on visits to Italy. There were further exhibitions of her works at Leighton House in 1904, with a catalogue containing appreciative remarks by George Frederic Watts, and at Dowdeswell's in 1905 and 1909. She continued her illustrative work, which from about 1905 consisted of both line drawings and watercolours made for reproduction as half-tone colour plates. In 1911 two editions of Tennyson's Idylls of the King (de luxe and popular) were published with illustrations from her watercolours while the originals were on show in another of her one-woman exhibitions, this time at the Leicester Galleries. From that year she taught in the art school in Kensington founded by Byam Shaw' (Oxford DNB). Large 4to (300 × 240 mm), pp. [12], 173, [1], plus 21 coloured plates, mounted. Endpapers browned. Original publisher's full vellum, gilt. Slightly soiled, covers very slightly bowed, wants ties. A good copy.
Seller: Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd ABA, Faversham, United Kingdom