Search Results: Authors starting with H from Robert Frew Ltd

Vanity Fair, April 26, 1884. Drawn by Go. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Jerusalem: Omanut Press, 1937.. Small 8vo. (17 x 12 cm). pp.67+[1]. Original pictorial olive-wood boards backed with cloth spine. Numerous woodcut illustrations in monochrome and colour by Israeli educator Brurit Una throughout. Light wear to spine, generally a very good copy. An illustrated Passover Haggadah from 1930s Jerusalem, edited by the Jewish scholar Rabbi Dr. Joseph Unna.

Vanity Fair, May 21, 1887. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf from the magazine including biographical text.

Vanity Fair, May 21, 1887. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Newmarket: Clarence Hailey, [c.1907].. FIRST EDITION. Oblong folio (28.5 x 39.5 cm). Half-title, title, index, ff. 69. Original red leather binding, sides ruled in gilt, upper cover with gilt lettering, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. 35 engraved plates after Hailey. Lightly rubbed, some dampstaining to upper cover, occasional foxing throughout, generally a very good copy. An exceptionally rare book, we can trace no copies at auction or in institutions. The book lists 35 "race stallions in the Argentine Republic" each with a sheet presenting their pedigree next to their photogravure portrait from retouched photos by Clarence Hailey. All listed in alphabetical order according to stud farm. Thomas Clarence Hailey (1867-1949) was a highly regarded equestrian artist and photographer and he opened a studio in Newmarket in 1903. In 1923 he was advertising 'Hailey's Bloodstock Agency' at 27 Cavendish Square, London W1 and he was a regular purchaser and a visitor and a seller of… Read More

Vanity Fair, March 25, 1876. Drawn by J. Tissot. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

London: John Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1820.. FIRST EDITION. Large paper copy. (37 x 26.5 cm). 52 leaves of text (unpaginated). Contemporary half green morocco over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, marbled endpapers and edges. Complete with engraved title page and 63 engraved plates after Hakewill. Upper joint just starting but holding strong, light toning, offsetting, and occasional foxing (notably to engraved title), lightly rubbed, withal a very good, large copy. 'James Hakewill (1778–1843), architectural draughtsman, was born on 25 November 1778, the second son in the family of eight surviving children of John Hakewill (1742–1791), landscape and portrait painter, and decorator, and his wife, Anna Maria Cook (1747–1818). The architect Henry Hakewill (1771–1830) was his brother. He was trained as an architect and entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1807, from which date he became a regular exhibitor there. The same year he married Marie Catherine, daughter… Read More

Vanity Fair, March 22, 1884. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, March 4, 1882. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. Without original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, Jan. 30, 1892.. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 31 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Berlin, 1937.. FIRST EDITION. Folio (20 x 21 cm). pp.167. Original green cloth spine over cream cloth boards, upper cover lettered in gilt. Photographic frontispiece, richly illustrated in monochrome throughout. Light fading and spotting to cloth, contents clean and sound, generally a very good copy.

Vanity Fair, Aug. 6, 1870. 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, Feb. 18, 1888. 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, Feb. 18, 1888. 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, Feb. 18, 1888. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Edinburgh: A. & C. Black. [c.1850]. Map dimensions, 81.5 x 57 cm, overall dimensions 85 x 61 cm. Folding map of Scotland on a scale of 10 miles to one inch. Inset maps of the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands and St. Kilda. Pale original colour in block and outline. The whole dissected into 36 sections and mounted on linen, folds between publisher's green cloth, gilt and blindstamped covers, title within pictorial shield stamped in gilt to upper cover, distance table pasted in at inner cover. Minor wear to covers, lacking original cloth ties. Slight wear at the edges of the map sections, otherwise in good condition. Engraved by either Sidney Hall (died 1831) or, more probably, his wife Selina, who carried on the business up to her demise 22 years later. The map would appear to pre-date the Deeside Valley Railway running from Aberdeen through to Banchory, Balleter, Balmoral and Braemar, work on the line commenced in the early 1850's.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.. FIRST EDITION. 8vo (22.9 X 15.2 cm). pp. xviii + 228. Publishers original maroon cloth binding; silver titles to spine; cream pictorial dust jacket. With 27 figures such as maps and genealogies throughout. An excellent copy. In this book Jonathan Hall seeks to demonstrate that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural groups, but social groups whose 'origins' in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. Adopting an explicitly anthropological point of view, he examines the evidence of literature, archaeology and linguistics to elucidate the nature of ethnic identity in ancient Greece. Rather than treating Greek ethnic groups as 'natural' or 'essential' - let alone 'racial' - entities, he emphasises the active, constructive and dynamic role of ethnography, genealogy, material culture and language in shaping ethnic… Read More

Vanity Fair, Sept 15, 1898. 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, Sept 15, 1898. 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, Nov. 23, 1872. Drawn by ? Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 35.5 x 23cm. Image size approx. 30.5 x 18.5cm. With original leaf of biographical text.