![Item #31472 Gems of the Exhibition. [Cover-title] 1851](https://goldwasserbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/31472.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1532558009)
1851. Quarto. Original leather, stamped in blind and gilt, title stamped in the center of the upper cover. Colored dome-topped engraving (10 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 26 x 18 cm. ) of the Exhibition hall, plus 12 unsigned hand-colored prints mounted on card, illustrating various exhibits: Crystal Fountain, Silk..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Original boards with printed title information on the front board, roan back. Title-page, 34 text pages and five colored engravings. Excellent, clean copy, with mild offset from the plates to facing pages. See Tooley 3. More
London: Ackermann, 1814. First edition. Two volumes, quarto. (13 1/4 x 10 3/4 in. ; 337 x 265 mm.) 82 plates of which 64 are colored aquatints of city views and 17 colored line and stipple engravings of University costume. Half-titles present in both volumes. Vol. 1, plate 1 in..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto (14 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches). Title page, 27 text pages, plus four colored aquatints, three of them after drawings by Auguste-Charles Pugin. Contemporary drab boards, uncut. The text is watermarked 1816 and one plate has an 1812 watermark. Second issue, first state..... More
London: Ackermann, 1808-1810. First edition. Quarto, 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches. 334 x 270 mm. Each volume with a wood-engraved title and engraved dedication. (vol.1) iv, 231; (vol. 2) vvi, 239; (vol. 3) vi, 280, (3 leaves index); text, plus 104 colored aquatints after drawings by Thomas Rowlandson and..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto, 14 x 11 inches. Title page (verso blank) 32 text pages, plus five colored engravings (1816 watermark), with the directions to the binder slip. Contemporary boards, hand lettered on the front, uncut, rebacked. Usual offset from the plates to facing pages, occasional spotting..... More
Printed by T. Bensley and Son: Robert Bowyer, 1816. First edition. Folio, 19 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches. Six hand-colored aquatints, one folding, on four plates, 34 pages of text with map plus ten pages of biographical appendices and two uncolored engravings. Contemporary quarter calf. Watermarks dated 1814, 1816. Short..... More
London: J. Taylor, 1820. First edition. Folio, 16 x 12 1/2 inches (32 x 41 cm.). (2) pp., 16 text leaves, plus 26 colored aquatints. Original 1/4 roan over cloth, title git stamped in the center of the front cover, gilt edges. Binding extremities worn, but internally in excellent condition..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1821. First edition. Quarto, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (270 x 210 mm). Half-title, title page with colored vignette, pp. (ii)- vi, 1-288, with 48 hand-colored colored aquatint plates. Old half leather, gilt, over marbled boards. Binding extremities rubbed, slight offset from the plates to facing..... More
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London: Longmans, 1847. Humphreys, Noel. 8vo, 6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. Chromolithographed title page and 31 chromolithographed pages, with text, symbolic borders, miniatures and initials printed in gold, black, and colors, 2 page printed explanation and advertising leaf. Publisher's papier-maché boards, covered with black plaster, molded to appear like..... More
Philadelphia: D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1855. Third octavo edition, considered to be the best of the octavo editions for the superiority of its coloring. Three volumes, 120 brilliant hand-colored plates lithographed by J.T. Bowen after paintings by Charles Bird King; a superb set in publisher's deluxe binding of full..... More