Plate Books from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: Lewis A. Lewis 1835. Large 8vo. Two volumes. xxiv, 198 pp.; [iii], 207 pp. Portrait and 88 plates in black and white and colour. 30 vignettes. Collated complete. Full green morocco with gilt decoration to boards and gilt lettering and devices to spine; a.e.g and gilt turn-ins. Both volumes have been sympathetically respined and have wear to edges. Previous… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Wm. S. Orr and Co. 1840. Large 8vo. xx, 361 pp. 45 engraved plates (including frontis) and numerous other in-text illustrations. Recased in red cloth with bind-stamped decoration to boards and gilt-decorated and lettered spine. Wear to extremities and scattered foxing to text. The plates are on India paper. A series of portraits of members of French society. .… Ler mais sobre este item

Koln / London / Madrid / New York / Paris / Tokyo: Taschen 2000. Large 4to. 464 pp. Hardcover in illustrated jacket. Light rubbing and bumping to extremities. Light spotting to top and bottom edges. Internally clean. Prince Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen founded the famous garden at Eichstatt in the early 17th century. It was documented in 367 copperplate… Ler mais sobre este item

London: William Smith 1837-1840. 4to. 3 volumes. viii, 94 [+ plates], [12]; iv, 188 [+ plates]; iv, 188 [+ plates] pp. Half dark brown morocco over brown boards with gilt lettering and borders to spine; marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red. Rubbing around corners, joints and spine ends. Slight fading and spots to boards. Binding firm. Light foxing throughout. 137… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Thames and Hudson 1994. Square 4to.Limited Edition. Signed numbered limited edition. 192 pp. Pictorial soft cover, in a navy slipcase with a title label to the front board. No. 126 of 200 copies, with a loose signed 'red print' - an intaglio print, produced from one carborundum plate in two colours and hand-painted with rouge helios Sennelier tempera. Slipcase… Ler mais sobre este item

London and Dublin: Printed for S. Hooper [and] printed for G. Tyrrell 1833. Small 4to.Ex-Library. Engraved illustrated title and 16 engravings as called for. 32 pp text and 17 Grose plates, mostly coloured, relating to Co. Louth. Bound in a modern speckled calf with marbled boards. Scarce. Bound with 17, mostly coloured Grose plates, largely relating to Co. Louth. .… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Groombridge and Sons N.d. [c. 1880]. 8vo. In 8 volumes. Ranging between 156 to 235 pp. Tissue-guarded hand-coloured plates to each volume, 358 in total. Uniformly bound in full green calf with gilt ruled lines to boards and gilt detailing, five raised bands, and red title & volume labels to spines. Slight rubbing to boards and wear at extremities,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Ernest Nister [1895]. 4to. xvi, 273 pp. Shiny maroon cloth with floral black stamped decoration and gilt lettering, with the same floral designs and black lettering on spine. Taxonomy of butterflies and moths with 30 chromolithographic plates. Spine discoloured and a bit worn at ends, much marking to rear board. Small tear to rear joint, and former owner's name… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Offices of 'The Studio' 1903. Folio. In eight parts complete. Folio measuring 31cm x 43cm. Publisher's quarter cream-coloured cloth over boards with paper title onlay to front board. With 48 plates, eight original parts loose within original portfolio boards. Boards worn and slightly marked, with loss to the top board's top-right corner. Each part in grey printed paper wrappers… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Printed for the Author 1823-40. 8vo.Illustrated. 8 Volumes. Green morocco binding with gilt decorated spine and gilt turn ins. All edges gilt with marbled endpapers. Sunning to the spines with wear to the joints and slight marks to the boards. Bindings firm. Spotting to the endpapers but otherwise internally clean and bright. Complete with 770 hand coloured engravings with… Ler mais sobre este item

London: William Mackenzie [1879]. FolioIllustrated. xxvi, 204 pp. Brown leather spine with gilt lettering over green boards. Top edge gilt but faded. Illustrated with 41 fine chromolithographs of each species drawn from nature by A. F. Lydon, and numerous engravings. Rubbing to spine and edges and a slight lean to binding. Foxing throughout. This is a heavy item and may… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Longman, Green and Co. 1915-1918. 4to.Illustrated. In four volumes, complete. Bound in red gilt lettered cloth. Sunning to the spines and marks to the boards, particularly the rear of the first volume. Owner's inscription to the front end paper of the first volume dated 1918. Slight marks and spotting to the the extremities, otherwise internally clean with a firm… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Fullarton and Co. (circa 1851). 4to. Title page and 40 etched plates with pencil titles. Full red morocco with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine, boards and edges, gilt inner dentelles. Blind detail on the boards and marbled end papers. No pagination, [1, 40 etchings]. Some foxing throughout. Generally in fair condition with some wear to the boards… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Hodgson & Graves, Printsellers to the King 1837. FolioIllustrated. Large folio measuring 38cm x 56cm. Recent dark green half morocco over original gilt-lettered dark green moire cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. New endpapers. Wear to board edges. Spotting & staining to all plates, primarily to edges but affecting some engraved areas. Tinted title-page engraving. Engraved dedication & plate leaf.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Bell and Daldy 1868. 4to. iv, 91 pp. Publisher's original elaborately gilt-decorated and blind-stamped brown cloth. Bevelled boards. All edges gilt. Some fading to spine with wear to foot of spine. Small stain to recto of frontis. Internally clean. Extra-illustrated title-page. With forty full-page tissue-guarded colour illustrations. . Very Good. Gilt Decorated Cloth. 1868.

Naples: Museo Reale Borbonico 1825 / 183-. 4to.Illustrated. In 2 volumes. Unpaginated [160]; [120] pp. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands to spines with maroon & black title & volume labels. Rubbing to spines & corners. Internally clean. Two engraved title-pages. With 160 full-page plates, including one folding, in the first volume. 120 full-page plates, including one folding,… Ler mais sobre este item

[London]: [Novello, Ewer, and Co.] [1891]. Atlas FolioIllustrated. Proof copy printed on vellum. This is copy no. 17 of 26 copies issued with a set of sixteen proofs on Japanese vellum. Only numbers 1 to 26 of the 676 copies were issued with the proofs on vellum. Large folio measuring 36cm x 46cm. Contemporary blue crushed morocco with gilt lettering… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co circa 1880. 8vo. x + 406 pp, with hand coloured title page and 12 hand coloured steel engravings and some black white illustrations within the text. Half red morocco with hunting devices in the spine compartments. Top edge gilt and marbled boards. . Very Good. Gilt-decorated Morocco. 1880.

London: William Heinemann 1900. 4to. 14 pp. Publisher's original cream-coloured cloth spine over pictorial boards. In recent brown cloth solander box with paper title label to spine. Minor rubbing to corners. Bookplates to front pastedown. Offsetting from plates and slight spotting. With twelve full-page plates by William Nicholson. In Very Good to Near Fine condition. . Very Good. Illustrated Boards.… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Seeley & Sons 1833. Large 8vo. 486, (2) pp. Bound in recent antique half calf over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt devices & green leather title label. New endpapers. Internally clean. With eight full-page hand-coloured lithographs. . Near Fine. Half Calf. First Edition. 1833.