Keats, John; Raleigh, Walter; Bell, Robert Anning [illustrator]
Reprint. Octavo, pp. xxiii, [5], 338, [2]. Black and red illustrated title-page and individual title-pages for Odes, Sonnets etc. Heavily illustrated throughout with 22 beautiful full-page plates and over 50 head and tailpieces and illustrations within the text by Robert Anning Bell. Bound in publisher's beige cloth over boards, decorative grape vine design blocked to upper board and spine in burgundy and green, publisher's device to lower board, gilt spine titles, top edge, others uncut. Cloth very faintly soiled. Endpaper to lower hinge split but structurally firm and secure. Contents clean save some light foxing, mainly to prelims. Former owner's name in pencil to verso of ffep else free from ownership marks, inscriptions, and annotations. Robert Anning Bell (1863 1933) was for a time the chief designer at the Glasgow School of Art and he went on to become Professor of Design of the Royal Academy of Art. As well as being a book illustrator Bell worked in stained glass and his fine pen and ink illustrations are influenced by his Arts and Crafts background and are very very reminiscent of both woodcuts and stained glass motifs. A beautiful example of Bell's early illustrative work very much in the Art Nouveau style. The first book in the desirable Endymion series published by George Bell and Sons. Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators, p.61.
Keats, John; Raleigh, Walter; Bell, Robert Anning [illustrator]
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xxii, [2], 333, [3]. Black and red illustrated title-page and individual title-pages for Odes, Sonnets etc. Heavily illustrated throughout with beautiful full-page plates and over 50 head and tailpieces and illustrations within the text by Robert Anning Bell. Bound in publisher's cream cloth over boards, decorative vinery design blocked to upper board and spine in dark green with gilt titles, publisher's device to lower board, brown spine title, decorative endpapers, leaves uncut. Cloth is clean and very lightly creased to spine tips, gilt is bright. Pastedowns and text block lightly foxed, mainly to prelims and edges, small, neat early 20th century gift inscription to ffep. Tissue guard free from tears. A near fine copy. Robert Anning Bell (1863 1933) was for a time the chief designer at the Glasgow School of Art and he went on to become Professor of Design of the Royal Academy of Art. As well as being a book illustrator Bell worked in stained glass and his fine pen and ink illustrations are influenced by his Arts and Crafts background and are very very reminiscent of both woodcuts and stained glass motifs. A beautiful example of Bell's early illustrative work depicting Shelly's nymphs, satyrs, and the Olympians very much in the Art Nouveau style. The first book in the desirable Endymion series published by George Bell and Sons. Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators, p.61.
Atkinson, George Clayton; Seaton A. V. (editor)
Limited edition of 875 copies only, of which this is no. 142. Quarto, pp. xlv, [1], 187, [1]. With 41 colour plates and maps. Bound in quarter green morocco and marbled paper over boards; gilt fillets parallel to spine; 4 raised spine bands with gilt fillets, gilt spine title; green endpapers; all edges gilt. Housed in a green wove cloth covered slipcase. Slipcase lightly rubbed to edges. Fine book in a near fine slipcase. Beautifully illustrated travel journal of naturalist George Clayton Atkinson (1808-1877) who was also the biographer of Thomas Bewick. Edited and introduced by A. V. Seaton, and signed by him to the limitation leaf. Includes an illuminating biography of Clayton, his travel companions, and the artists who produced the superb water-colour sketches which illustrate the manuscript.
Reprint. Octavo, pp. xxxv, [1], 225, [1]. Frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title-page in red and black. Heavily illustrated throughout with beautiful full-page plates, decorated titles, head and tail-pieces and illustrations within the text by W. Heath Robinson. Bound in arsenic green publisher's cloth over boards, decorative tendril design blocked to upper board and spine with gilt titles, printer's device to lower board, tendril spine decoration and gilt spine titles, top edge gilt, others uncut. Cloth is vibrant, clean and ever so slightly rubbed to spine tips, gilt is bright. Text-block has the odd spot of light foxing to edges and prelims, early 19th century armourial bookplate of one Fallowfield Kipling to front paste-down, else exceptionally clean, bright, and free from annotations or inscriptions. A near fine copy. Exquisite collection of Poe's gothic poetic work depicted with brooding artwork throughout by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) one of England's foremost illustrators. A superb example of William Heath Robinson's early illustrative style, heavily informed by his love of Japanese woodblock printing. From the Endymion series. Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators, p. 282.
Cooke's Edition. Duodecimo, pp. 140, [2] contents. With four engraved plates, including frontispiece portrait and engraved title-page and three engraved tail-pieces. Bound in a contemporary binding of full straight grain scarlet morocco, with gilt rolled panels; gilt rolled board edges; gilt fillets across spine and gilt spine titles in a vernacular style; blue marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Very minimal wear to corners of morocco, otherwise a very neat, and exceptionally clean and bright copy. A very pretty copy of this collection which eloquently grapples with themes of death, devotion and mortality. Dissenter, proto-feminist, and poet Elizabeth Singer Rowe (1674-1737) has been described by scholars as "stylistically and thematically radical for her time" Elegantly illustrated with four engraved plates including a frontispiece portrait of Rowe and an elaborately engraved title-page with memento mori symbolism. ESTC: T83339.
