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Price: US$160.25 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 400 copies. Cloth, large 4to, 25 x 31.5 cm, top edge gilt, xxi, 427 pp, colour frontispiece and 32 black-and-white collotype plates, 50 text illustrations. 633 entries. Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" works on a range of subjects: architecture (86 books), drawing books and artists' sketch books (108 books), art collections (17), magazines (9), decorative printing (15), illustrations of the classics (17), high life and low life in town and country (74), the navy (22), the army (35), sports and pastimes (14), roads and railways (14), the stage -music-dance (14), costume (12), miscellanea (17), panoramas (183). A very attractively produced catalogue and an essential bibliographical reference. Near Fine in a used and worn dustwrapper.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$249.99 + shipping
Description: First edition (a better production than reprints published in 1972 and 1991). This provides meticulous bibliographical descriptions of Major Abbey?s unrivalled collection of illustrated books on these topics published between 1770 and 1860. It is however worth noting, in relation to this and other volumes in the J.R.Abbey series, that Major Abbey?s copies were sometimes idiosyncratic, i.e. differing from other known copies of the same title, and that this is not generally signalled by the cataloguer. Large 4to. xxi + (1) + 427+ (1)pp, colour frontispiece, 32 collotype plates. Publisher?s cloth. One of 400 numbered copies.
Seller: Hugh Pagan Limited, Brockenhurst, HANTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$249.99 + shipping
Description: First edition (hardback), limited to 400 copies (this copy number 355). 4to, xxi, 428pp. Frontispiece, 32 collotype plates, 50 text figures. Original grey cloth, red title label to the spine with gilt titling, top edge gilt. The book is in very good condition. The original dustwrapper is present, but is only in fair condition (rubbed, creased and repaired, extremities frayed).
Seller: Cornell Books Limited, Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$266.65 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 400 copies. Cloth, large 4to, 25 x 31.5 cm, top edge gilt, xxi, 427 pp, colour frontispiece and 32 black-and-white collotype plates, 50 text illustrations. 633 entries. Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" works on a range of subjects: architecture (86 books), drawing books and artists' sketch books (108 books), art collections (17), magazines (9), decorative printing (15), illustrations of the classics (17), high life and low life in town and country (74), the navy (22), the army (35), sports and pastimes (14), roads and railways (14), the stage -music-dance (14), costume (12), miscellanea (17), panoramas (183). A very attractively produced catalogue and an essential bibliographical reference. Copy No. 269. Near Fine in a Good dustwrapper which is lightly soiled and a little chipped at the bottom edge.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$282.04 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 400 copies. Cloth, large 4to, 25 x 31.5 cm, top edge gilt, xxi, 427 pp, colour frontispiece and 32 black-and-white collotype plates, 50 text illustrations. 633 entries. Abbey's classic bibliographical catalogue of "colour-plate" works on a range of subjects: architecture (86 books), drawing books and artists' sketch books (108 books), art collections (17), magazines (9), decorative printing (15), illustrations of the classics (17), high life and low life in town and country (74), the navy (22), the army (35), sports and pastimes (14), roads and railways (14), the stage -music-dance (14), costume (12), miscellanea (17), panoramas (183). A very attractively produced catalogue and an essential bibliographical reference. Copy No. 169. Contents slightly agetoned, otherwise Very Good in a duststained dustwrapper which has some fraying tand slight loss to the edges.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$352.55 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A smart limited edition of this brightly illustrated bibliographical catalogue of artwork exploring life in England. Limited to five hundred copies of which this is number seventy-one. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, thirty-two collotype plates, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. A vast bibliographical catalogue of artwork exploring life in England, with chapters on art collections, decorative printing, illustrations of the classics, the navy, the army, sports and pastimes, railways, costume, stage, panoramas, and much more. From the library of Major John Roland Abbey, an English book collector and high sheriff. Images for this work were produced with the use of printmaking techniques aquatint, for tonal effects, and lithography. In the original full grey cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light wear to the extremities and the odd small mark to the panels. Light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
ABBEY, J.R.. Life in England.. Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, London, 1953.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 400 numbered copies. Large quarto. xxi (including color frontispiece), 428 pp. with thirty-two collotype plates. Publisher's grey-brown cloth with red morocco gilt spine label, top edge gilt. Original printed dust jacket with some edge wear. A very clean and crisp copy with prospectus laid in.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: xxi, 428 pp. Illustrated from collotype plates; frontispiece in color. Folio, publisher's gray cloth with gilt leather spine label, in dust jacket. First edition; No. 307 of 400 copies. Front corners a little bumped; otherwise a fine copy in a dust-soiled jacket with internal tape repairs at the center of the spine, and overall light use.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
ABBEY, J. R.. Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1779-1860: Architecture. , 1953.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: ABBEY, J. R. Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography, 1779-1860: Architecture, Drawing Books, Art Collections, Magazine, Navy and Army, Panoramas, etc., from the Library of J.R. Abbey. A Bibliographical Catalogue. Original cloth, red morocco spine label, T.e.g. London: Privately Printed at the Curwen Press, 1953. 4to. First edition. One of 400 numbered copies. The great reference work on the subject. Near fine.
Seller: G.S. MacManus Co., ABAA, Bryn Mawr, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: xxi,427,[1]pp. Colored frontispiece plus thirty-two fine collotype plates. Large quarto. Original buckram, t.e.g. Very good. In worn dust jacket. Number 80 from an edition limited to 400 copies. The most comprehensive work in its field, carefully describing over 600 books, panoramas, periodicals, and the like, depicting British life in aquatint and lithography. Beautifully illustrated.
Seller: William Reese Company - Americana, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.