Ancient Spanish Ballads Historical and Romantic by Lockhart J G Translated by (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover, 6 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches, 127 pages. Bound in full leather with marbled endpapers. Please note that the covers are detached and about a third of the spine is missing. Pages are clean. Not recommended for resale or as a gift. I will not ship this book overseas.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. New Revised Edition. Shelf wear. B2 3.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Rare early printing. Book has moderate age/use wear including spine fading. Ex-Library.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. New Edition, xxii + 127pp, engraved portrait frontis and illustrations, hardcover, attractively bound in dark green grained morocco by Bickers, raised bands, gilt lettered, all edges gilt, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, very good condition, John Murray, London, 1870.

Condition: Fair to poor. 30 Historical ballads; 5 Moorish ballads; and 21 Romantic ballads. Two bookplates to the front end papers.Text printed on ribbed paper. Repairs to the front gutter with Japanese tissue paper. Rear end papers are split at the gutter. Rear board is attached only by the threads. Light scattered foxing. Untrimmed pages. 208 Pages. Condition: Fair to poor. Binding: Hardcover. Red leather spine with paper boards. Spine fragile with long splits to the sides. Abrasions to the boards. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. New edition, revised. With numerous illustrations from drawings by William Allan, R.A., David Roberts, R.A., Henry Warren, C. E. Aubrey, and William Harvey. The borders and ornamental vignettes by Owen Jones. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt. Wear through the cloth at the head and the heel of the spine and wear to the extremities. Moderate browning.

Second edition (of 2000 copies) having the decorative endpapers. 4to. Unpaginated but [xxxvi] + [220] pp. + [16] catalogue of John Murray's latest publications + [2] advertisement for Owen Jones' 'Details and Ornaments from the Alhambra'all with decorative borders + numerous attractive wood-engravings. Original green cloth with gilt blocked decoration. Small loss to head of spine and tail and corners a little frayed bumped, re-cased preserving the original binding and endpapers. The re-case is slightly clumsy but effective. The earliest of Owen Jones' illuminated gift books, this is an important, highly ornamented work containing early examples of chromolithography. Every page of text has its own coloured, decorative border printed from wood with each ballad having its own design. Jones also provided the ornamental letters and vignettes. The book is divided into sections for Historical Ballads, Moorish Ballads and Romantic Ballads, each having its own elaborate title page, also designed by Jones. Ruari McLean, in his work, Victorian Book Design, says.'it must have been - after Baxter's 'Pictorial Album ' of 1837 - the most colourful and lavish book, produced for the gift book market, that London had yet seen.'. Printed by Vizetelly and Co. and bound by Remnant and Edmonds. A real gem. ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS VICTORIAN 19TH CENTURY FINE BINDING ILLUSTRATED SPANISH SONG MUSIC ILLUSTRATED/CHILDRENS.

1870, London, John Murray, new edition, ppxxii + 127, black and white illustrations, full green calf, gilt decorations in compartments, all edges gilt. Spine slightly faded, otherwise very good.