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Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart copy of this beautifully illustrated study of British butterflies. Illustrated with sixteen plates, fourteen of which are in colour, and many in-text images. Collated complete. A detailed study of British butterflies with reference to the butterfly life cycle, feeding, breeding, the individual parts of the body, and each individual species native to the British Isles. Written by William Stephen Coleman, an English painter, illustrator, and writer. Illustrated by Edmund Evans, an English wood-engraver and colour printer of the Victorian era. In the original green and blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine and the odd spot to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot and light spotting to the endpapers. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Description: , 340 pages, no.98 of a limited edition of 250, signed by publisher and printer, coloured and black and white illustrations throughout Limited Edition , rebacked, slight rbbing to spine,heavy rubbing to edges and corners of boards, marking to covers, library label to spine and front free endpaper, library stamp to title pages and limitation page, untrimmed edges tanned, occasional foxing, good condition , brown cloth, printed titles to front, gilt top edge , 39 cm x 34 cm Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Delightful Tribute to the brilliant illustrator. Includes Many of his Characterful illustrations in Colour and B&W. Includes "A Lovers Quarel,2, "Mr Carlyon's Christmas", "The Rivals" and much more. Limited Numbered Edition, signed by Publisher & Printer. This copy is No. 196 of 1250. Brown Tan Quarter-Cloth spine with Gilt Lettering, Darker Brown Cloth-covered Boards with Brown Lettering. Top page edges Gilt, other edges untrimmed. 340 Pages, 4.1 Kilos, 15 1/2" Tall. Some edge wear and small tears to cloth. Hinges cracked. Binding firm. No inscriptions. Some occasional marginal fingermarks. No inscriptions. Large, heavy book, weighs 4.1 Kilos so Postage outside UK will be extra. Please ask if you would like any more Pictures, Information or a Shipping Quote. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Folio hardcover volume in dark brown boards. About 2 3rds of spine missing other part loose boards holding but front endpaper cracked. 340 pages are in very good condition with no faults mostly color illustrations. Will require some extra postage. 1167 of 1250 copies.
Seller: Antique Emporium, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An attractive limited edition of 1,250, this one being number 1,215. Wear to spine ends and cover corners, light rubbing to edges, boards with minor soiling; internally fine, chromolithographs are clean and crisp. . Signed by publisher George Routledge and printer Edmund Evans at limitation page. ; Famed illustrator Randolph Caldecott (1846 - 1886) was a frequent contibutor to the pages of the "Graphic" after the succes of his illustrations of Washington Irving's "Old Christmas"; besides other occasional contibutions, nearly every Summer and Chrismas Number was enlivened by the designs of his joyous pencil. (from Locker's Preface); Folio; 339, [1] pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$580.07 + shipping
Description: Good copy quarter cloth over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some dust-toning and wear to the hinges and panel edges as with age. Remains preserved overall; tight and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 339 pages. Notes; This edition is limited to 1,250 copies, this copy is #229. Subjects; Randolph Caldecott. Printers. The "Graphic". English sketches. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$640.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy quarter cloth over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some dust-toning and wear to the hinges and panel edges as with age. Remains preserved overall; tight and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 339 pages. Notes; This edition is limited to 1,250 copies, this copy is #229. Subjects; Randolph Caldecott. Printers. The "Graphic". English sketches. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1885.17 + shipping
Description: First edition, large paper copy. 1 of 1250 copies signed by the publisher and printer. Folio, bound in full contemporary green morocco, raised bands, elaborate gilt compartments, decorative gilt border on both boards, inner dentelles gite, t.e.g., 339, [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in colour throughout. Some rubbing to the extremities, outer hinges rubbed with the outer front hinge starting at top and foot and tender, but still nice copy in an attractive binding.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Caldecott, Randolph. The Complete Collection of Randolph Caldecotts Contributions to The Graphic. Printed by Edmund Evans. With a Preface by Arthur Locker (Editor of the Graphic). London: George Routledge And Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill. Glasgow, And New York. 1888. 1st Edition, a Limited Edition, #448/1250 copies. Randolph Caldecott clipped Signature dated 26th. Dec 1882 laid in. 15 ½ x 13. [7] Half-Title page at [5], frontispiece, Title Page, Limitation Page, [6] Preface at [1,2], 13-339 [1] pp. Spine re-backed in dark red leather with gold lettering. Original boards, with front board heavily tanned (browned) at front edge. Bottom edges heavily worn. Front/back edges worn at the corner areas. Top boards with three worn spots. Leather torn at top of spine, an inch. Spine ends worn. Legible spine lettering. Bottom front cover with 3 rubbed areas with loss. Rear cover is rubbed, a few small areas of wear, few scratches. TEG. First ten pages have foxing and spotting but very clean thereafter. Illustrations bright. [A note: The signatures of Routledge and Evans on the limitation page are facsimiles. In the 1887 1st Edition of The Complete Collection of Pictures and Songs those same facsimiles appear, all 1250 of them. Exactly as they do in this Collection. [2500 facsimiles.] Two bookplates front pastedown. Bookplate of Harry Worcester Smith, noted industrialist, inventor, and avid equestrian. He traveled the globe winning many steeplechase and jumping events. It may be his interest in horses that drew him to admire Caldecotts interest in and illustrations of horses. Art Deco bookplate of Jere. L. Wentz. This collection published by Routledge and Sons follows their publication in 1887 of The Complete Collection of Pictures and Songs by Randolph Caldecott, who passed away in 1886. Extra shipping cost required. Book weighs 10 pounds.
Seller: Holly Books, South Windsor, CT, U.S.A.