Search Results: Titles starting with C from Robert Frew Ltd

Vanity Fair, February 7, 1901. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. Without Text leaf.

London: Jacob Tonson, 1712.. FIRST EDITION THUS. Folio. Large paper copy (48 x 33 cm). Title. pp.[iv]+560. Contemporary full red straight-grained morocco, spine with raised bands and lettered in gilt, sides bordered with double gilt fillet. Text in Latin. Engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title, dedication portrait, 6 folding maps and 78 full page plates of which 56 are double page. A magnificent copy. "The most sumptuous classical work which this country has produced" (Lowndes, 344), and "one of the finest books to emerge in early eighteenth-century British publishing" (McKitterick, 145).

Vanity Fair, 1910. Drawn by ELF. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 40 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 33 x 20cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, April 2, 1903. 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, 29th March, 1900. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

London: William Heinemann, [1898].. Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut (overall 31 x 24.5 cm, image size c.25 x 20 cm).

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, [1851-1856].. Original steel engraved map of Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan (27.5 x 36 cm). Accompanied by vignette scenes by A. Fussell of Lahore, Sultan Mahmoud's Minars and Fortress at Ghuznee and the boats of the Indus. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the maps. Original outline colour. Centrefold crease as issued, generally an excellent copy. For the Great Exhibition in 1851 John Tallis (1817-1876) worked with engraver John Rapkin (1815-1876) to publish the 'Illustrated World Atlas', whose maps were later re-issued by the London Printing and Publishing Company. Their maps are prized for their steel-engraved vignettes showing the peoples, customs, architecture, landmarks, flora, and fauna of each country.

The London Printing and Publishing Company, [1851-1856].. Original steel engraved map of Afghanistan and modern day Pakistan (27.5 x 36 cm). Accompanied by vignette scenes by A. Fussell of Lahore, Sultan Mahmoud's Minars and Fortress at Ghuznee and the boats of the Indus. Decorative scrolling and title cartouche around the edges of the maps. Original outline colour. Centrefold crease as issued, an excellent copy. For the Great Exhibition in 1851 John Tallis (1817-1876) worked with engraver John Rapkin (1815-1876) to publish the 'Illustrated World Atlas', whose maps were later re-issued by the London Printing and Publishing Company. Their maps are prized for their steel-engraved vignettes showing the peoples, customs, architecture, landmarks, flora, and fauna of each country.0

[London: Printed by Stephen Couchman, 1793].. Original hand-coloured copper engraving (22.5 x 13.5 cm) with accompanying leaf of descriptive text. The Botanical Magazine is one of the oldest scientific periodicals of its kind. The work was immediately successful (its publication continuing almost without interruption until 1983), endorsing Curtis's theory that his clients, who refused to buy folio pictures of unassuming plants, would subscribe to an octavo work which pictured showy plants that filled their gardens. Hunt 689; Nissen BBI 2350; Stafleu & Cowan 1290; Blunt (1994) pp.211-217; Great Flower Books (1990), pp.156-7.

London: John Murray, 1831.. Original hand-coloured engraving (25 x 15.75 cm). William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow, was appointed the first full-time director of the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1841. Over the course of his long tenure, which ended at his death in 1865, he helped develop and create the modern Royal Gardens at Kew.

Lisbon 1786]. Oblong 8vo. 15 x 21 cm. 20 plates (plate mark c.11 x 13-16 cm.). Uncut and bound with a single (original) stitch to left margin. Lacking title. First plate a little dust-soiled, others generally very good The plates are all titled in Portuguese and French, the first dated 1785, no others dated. Bound without title page but otherwise almost exactly as another copy we had a few years ago, including the stitch. Still exceedingly rare - the last record of public offering was Maggs, 1928, termed "very scarce". Engraved portraits of various cargo, transport, and fishing vessels found on the Tagus River in the eighteenth century

Paris: [1683]. Original copper engraving. 14.3 x 9.9 cm. Full later hand colour. Miniature birds-eye view of the port of Cadiz. Three very small wormholes to upper left margin, one barely encroaching into border.

39 Paternoster Row London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.. 8vo. (18 x 12 cm). pp. xvi + 568. Contemporary prize binding of blue polished calf by Relfe Brothers for Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne, their crest gilt-stamped to upper cover, sides ruled with gilt foliate border, spine with raised bands and gilt-decorated compartments, red morocco label, gilt inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Bookplate of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne, inscribed in ink, 'For Latin & French / Awarded to J.W Brindley / William J. Butcher Bretes Head Master / Date 29.7.1903. Very light shelfwear to baords, generally an excellent example. James Anthony Froude was an English historian and biographer whose History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada fundamentally altered the whole direction of Tudor studies. He was immensely prolific, producing also novels and essays. Britannica.

London: Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author, No.5 Knightsbridge. 1805. Original hand-coloured engraved plate (26 x 20.5 cm.). with accompanying leaf of descriptive text. Issued in Henry Andrews' Botanists Repository For New and Rare Plants, Volume VI, plate 431.

London: F.G. Moon. 1849. c. 44 x 61 cm. Original tinted lithograph with later hand colouring. Full page. Roberts was the first independent, professional British artist to travel so extensively in the Near East. His tour in 1838-9 produced 272 sketches, a panorama of Cairo and three full sketchbooks, enough material to "serve me for the rest of my life" (Roberts, eastern journal, 28 Jan 1839). Over the next decade he made "a series of intire new drawings" for the large coloured lithographs executed by Louis Haghe for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, which was originally published by subscription, 1842-9. No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. "Robert's Holy Land was one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey, Travel). These lithographs were originally published in twenty parts, most parts… Read More

[Rome: Pubblicato a cura della Divisione Informazioni della Missione E.R.P. in Italia. Economic Cooperation Administration, U.S. Special Mission in Italy, January, 1951].. Original colour-printed pictorial map (33.5 x 24 cm overall, map dimensions 25 x 20 cm).

Printed at the Survey of India Offices: Published under the direction of Brigadier Sir E.O. Wheeler, M.C., Surveyor General of India, 1943.. Large colour printed plan of Calcutta (100 x 73.5 cm overall), marked "restricted" (but subsequently struck through with pen), folding between original card covers printed in black. Old ownership inscription to upper cover dated 1946. A few tiny nicks along folds, generally an excellent copy. First published 1933.

Vanity Fair, Nov 17, 1898. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 37 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, Nov 17, 1898. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 37 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Vanity Fair, Aug 15, 1895. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.