Search Results: Authors starting with V from MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1966. . First edition, 8vo., pp.260, blue hardcover, gilt; fine, in vg unclipped dust-jacket.

New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 1992. . Folio, pp.463, green cloth lettered in silver, colour and b/w plates; a very good fresh copy, in unclipped dust-jacket, which is lightly creased to margins, else vg.

London Andre Deutsch, 1960. . 8vo., pp.viii,191, powder blue hardcover, gilt, 16 b/w illustrations throughout; light rubbing on the headband, good unclipped dust jacket with small closed tears and light chipping, overall very good copy.

Bruxelles: Librairie nationale D’Art & D’Histoire, 1908. . First edition, 4to., pp.71,(4)index of plates, 281 plates, half calf with contrasting orange cloth, 5 raised bands, gilt, marbled endpapers; a couple of the plates are foxed, light finger-marking to margins of some of the plates, but generally clean and bright, light sunning to spine and partially to calf over boards, light scuffs to calf, rubbing to extremities, a very good copy.

London: R. Phillips, 1798. . Volume II (of two) only, 8vo., pp.(iv),324, later textured claret cloth, gilt, speckled edges; foxing to title, a little foxing throughout, a few leaves with heavier foxing and small production fault (crease to upper corner) spine lightly sunned, with rubbing to extremities and some marking to boards, a good copy.

Bruxelles: Vromant & Co., 1913. . 8vo., pp.14, 26 unbound b/w plates, in cloth-backed folder with ribbon-ties, with printed label to spine; foxing to tetx, with very light foxing to margins of first plate, rubbing to extremities of folder, a very good copy.

Toronto: Dundurn, 2012. . 8vo., pp.251, paperback, b/w illustrations; light shelfwear/slight curling to wrappers, else clean and very good.

London: Ernest Nister(/New York: E.P. Dutton & Co.), (1896). . Small 4to., pp.(46)unpaginated, cloth-backed glazed pictorial boards, tipped-in chromolithographic frontispiece, b/w illustrations throughout, with full-page Beatrix Potter plate (’What Shall We Buy?’), and 3pp. of illustrations to accompany a piece entitled ‘A Frog He Would A-Fishing Go’ (these illustrations were later used as the basis of Potter’s Jeremy Fisher); carefully repaired closed tears to fore-margin of front free endpaper and to lower margin of rear free endpaper, lower corner of rear free endpaper lightly cropped, some thumb-marking/light surface soil to contents, some light foxing and toning, with circular toning to last page of Beatrix Potter contribution, where the paper remains white with surrounding area toned, wear to paper covering of boards at extremities, surface soiling to boards, overall a very good copy of this scarce volume.

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1987. . 4to.,pp. 220, hardcover, gilt, colour plates, b/w figures; light toning to margins and to edges of boards, rubbing to foot of spine, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly toned to spine and extremities, with rubbing to corners.

Switzerland: Editions du Griffon Neuchatel, 1965. . First edition, 4to., pp.194, grey hardcover lettered in white, colour and b/w plates, complete with the 5 plastic overlays; owner’s autograph to front free endpaper, slight toning to edges, otherwise near-fine, in very good unclipped dust-jacket, which is just lightly worn to head of spine and upper corners, and with light toning to margins.

Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1993. . 8vo., pp.182,(ii), beige cloth, gilt; a fine, fresh copy, in vg+ unclipped dust-jacket.

Cambridge University Press, 1997. . 8vo.,pp. xxvii,645, hardcover, black lettering, b/w plates, maps and tables; light staining to lower edge of leaves, a very good copy, in a very good unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed to extremities.

London: Lovat Dickson and Thompson Limited, 1934. . First edition, 8vo., pp.51, pictorial white paper-covered boards illustrated and lettered in black, b/w in-text illustrations; light wear and discolouration to edges of boards, light foxing to endpapers, a very good copy, with remant of original glassine dust-jacket (the front of jacket intact, the rear of jacket missing, and all now covered with a plastic wrapper).

Pasadena: Munger Africana Library, California Institute of Technology, 1973. . 4to., pp.(iii),202, black cloth, gilt; light foxing to margins of endpapers, a little rubbing to extremities, else very good. (No dust-jacket.)

Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2002. . Revised version in English translation, 8vo., pp.xxvi,267, brown hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations; very good indeed, in very good unclipped dust-jacket.

Aerdenhout and Heiloo: Privately published, 2015. . Oblong 8vo., pp.(vi),275, paperback, colour illustrations; fine.

London: W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., (c.1920) . Oblong 4to., pp.unpaginated, pictorial paper-covered boards, 13 full-page colour plates, further b/w illustrations; owner’s inscription and ink-sketch to front paste-down endpaper, light wear to edges, 3cm surface loss to paper-covering at tailband, exposing card beneath, contents bright and clean, a very good copy.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d. (c.1904). . 4to., pp.(20),(20), cloth-backed pictorial boards, 20 colour plates (rectos) with accompanying verse to versos, neat ink ownership gift inscription to front paste-down endpaper (dated ‘[19]04’), free endpapers toned, the ‘s’ of ‘Bubbles’ to front board has been coloured red, wear to corners, light wear to paper covering alone edges, light wear to head- and tailbands, surface soil to pale paper of rear board, a little light fingermarking to margins, overall a good+ copy.

Verona: Scripta, 2012. . 8vo., pp.259, paperback, b/w illustrations; small ownership inscription to half title, else near-fine.

Manchester University Press, 1935. . 8vo.,pp.21, printed wrappers, b/w illustrations; rubbed and toned to extremities, ownership inscription to front of wrappers, some pages uncut to upper edge, light foxing to title and margins, otherwise very good.