Search Results: Authors starting with A from Robert Frew Ltd

London: [c.1850].. Folio (35 x 24 cm). 160 leaves (each numbered by hand to top left of verso). A collection of 44 songs* (most with separate title-page) bound together in a contemporary binding of half maroon morocco over marbled boards, ownership label to upper cover, the spine ruled and decorated in gilt, decorative patterned endpapers. With a leaf of manuscript index bound in at front. 6 lithographic title-vignettes. Ex libris John Webb, his ownership label to upper cover and initials appearing throughout. Extremities rubbed, some occasional toning and spotting, generally a very good, sound collection of Victorian songs. The Ethiopian Serenaders was an American blackface minstrel troupe successful in the 1840s and 1850s. Through various line-ups they were managed and directed by James A. Dumbolton (c.1808–?), and are sometimes mentioned as the Boston Minstrels, Dumbolton Company or Dumbolton's Serenaders. In late 1845, with line-up changes but retaining Germon and Stanwood, the Serenaders left… Read More

Vanity Fair, Dec 1, 1898. Drawn by Harry Furniss. Original chromolithograph. Image size approx. 49 x 33.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

. Original film poster. 108 x 73 cm.

. Original film poster. 107 x 73 cm.

Vanity Fair, Nov 28, 1895. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph.Image size approx. 49cm x 33cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, Sept. 25, 1869. Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 35.5 x 23cm. Image size approx. 31.5 x 19cm. With the original leaf of biographical text from the magazine.

Vanity Fair, February 6, 1902. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. Without text leaf.

Vanity Fair, February 6, 1902. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, Jue 26, 1875. Drawn by Ape. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. Right margin lightly faded, image unaffected. With original leaf of biographical text.

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie. 1893.. Tall 8vo. (26 x 16.5 cm). pp.317+[7]. Contemporary prize binding of full polished calf for Chesterfield Grammar School with their crest gilt to upper cover, sides ruled with double gilt-fillet, spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments, purple morocco label, marbled endpapers and edges. Profusely illustrated throughout with wood-engravings after Gustave Doré. Awarded to R.H. Phillips for French in 1895. Spotting to last several leaves, minimal rubbing to calf, generally a very good copy. First published with illustrations by Gustave Doré in 1861.

Vanity Fair, Nov. 20, 1880. Drawn by T. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (24.5 x 18.5 cm). pp. 206. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, original dust jacket. Ex libris Alex de Fé with his blind stamp to bottom of half-title page and book-plate to front pastedown. Dust jacket fairly worn, slight toning to ffep, a good copy else.

London: R. Ackermann, 1809-28.. FIRST EDITION. 40 vols. 8vo (22.4 x 14 cm.). Twentieth-century half tan calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt ruling, red and black morocco labels, marbled edges, some dyed yellow. 1486 plates, plus an additional 9 "bis" plates and 2 not in Abbey, giving a total of 1497 of which 1172 are hand-coloured the remainder being monochrome (needlwork patterns etc.) as usual.* Including aquatints and lithographs, fashion plates, furniture designs, country seats, allegorical woodcut plates with mounted fabric samples, designs for playing-cards. The rare folding plate of "The Female Penitentiary" can be found at the beginning of May 1812 in Vol. 7, 1st Series. Likewise, a pattern of needlework is found at the end of this section. Tooley notes that these plates are not described in the contents for this month and can only "sometimes" be found in this volume. Abbey counts the needlework as a standard plate, but does not call for "The Female Penitentiary". A… Read More

Oxford: Messrs. Wyatt & Son, 1st Octr. 1839.. First and sole edition. (31.5 x 213 cm). Folding aquatint panorama in sepia by F.C. Lewis after a drawing by Henry Acland. Backed onto linen and edged with green cloth. Some staining and spotting, some wear at folds and to edging, manuscript title on verso in a later hand. "This panorama accompanied the text of Acland's brief 48-page description of Troy: The Plains of Troy. Illustrated with a panoramic drawing taken on the spot; and a map, Oxford, W. Baker, 1839. Acland, who later became regius professor of medicine at Oxford, spent the years 1838-9 abroad for his health, most of that time as a guest on board H.M.S. Pembroke cruising the Mediterranean. It was then that he visited the Levant and the coast of Asia Minor; in fact he made three visits to the Troad in 1838. A long review of Acland's work appeared in the Quarterly Review, 1840 (vol. 66, pp. 355-74); it was highly praised by the anonymous reviewer who regrets that Acland did not publish the… Read More

Paris: Ch. Motte, 1834.. Original lithograph (50 x 39 cm.) with later hand-colour. Good condition.

[c.1850]. Original lithograph (54 x 40 cm.) Drawn by and signed in the plate V.Adam and Lith. de Engelmann.

[c.1850]. Original lithograph (54 x 40 cm.) Drawn by and signed in the plate V.Adam and Lith. de Engelmann.

[c.1850]. Original lithograph (54 x 40 cm.) Drawn by and signed in the plate V.Adam and Lith. de Engelmann.

[c.1850]. Original lithograph (54 x 40 cm.) Drawn by and signed in the plate V.Adam and Lith. de Engelmann.

Moscou et St. Petersbourg: Daziarou. [c.1850]. Original hand-coloured lithograph (25 x 34 cm; overall 38.5 x 54 cm.) lthographed by Bichebois after Adam, printed by Lemercier. Slight signs of oxidisation to upper and top right margin.