Search Results: Titles starting with R from Robert Frew Ltd

1944 - 45. 4to (27 x 22 cm.). Original Kodak Library black leather photo album. 55 photos, mostly12 x 8 cm. and captioned in white ink, mounted on 28 black paper leaves (plus blanks). Binding rubbed, spine worn.

Vanity Fair, September 18, 1902. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

[Paris: 1683]. 14.5 x 10 cm. Original copper engraving with later hand colouring. Miniature portrait of the King of Denmark. Generally a very good example.

[Paris: 1683].. 14.5 x 10 cm. Original copper engraving with later hand colouring. Miniature portrait of the king of Sweden. Generally a very good example.

London: William Heinemann, [1898].. 26 x 21 cm. Original lithograph after hand coloured woodcut.

London: T. McLean. 1841. Original lithograph 24 x 36 cm (sheet size 37 x 54 cm.). (Abbey Travel, 183).

[c.1890].. Original black & white albumen print (27 x 38 cm) of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome laid onto thicker card. Antonio D'Alessandri (L'Aquila, 1818 - Rome, 1893) and Paolo Francesco D'Alessandri (L'Aquila, 1824 - Rome, 1889) were two Italian photographers, contemporaries of the Alinari, who were mainly active in Rome.

[c.1890].. Original black & white albumen print (20 x 25.5 cm), laid onto thicker card (31.5 x 43 cm), image depicting the baroque fountain at Trevi c.1891.

[c.1890].. Original black & white albumen print (20.5 x 26 cm), laid onto thicker card (31.5 x 43 cm), image depicting the Fountain of the Esedra in 1891.

Vanity Fair, Dec 15, 1898. Drawn by Gaff. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

Venezia [Venice]: Carlo Pecora, 1744.. FIRST EDITION. 6 vols. 4to. (30 x 20.5 cm). Text printed in two columns (Italian and French), each volume with title-pages in French and Italian (each with engraved vignette), title-pages in vol. 1 with engraved border printed in red, vols. 1 and 2 with 8pp. explanatory "Allegorie," bound at the rear (the allegories in vols. 3-6 printed after the text of each fable),* vols.1 and 3 with author's note to the readers,Contemporary full vellum, each spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label. In total 216 copper-engraved plates (36 to each volume), 3 vignettes in the text, and 12 title-vignettes, all printed in various colours: bistre, black, green, grey, sanguine, and light blue. Numerous woodcut and engraved head- and tail-pieces. Old ownership inscriptions in vols. 1 and 6. An extensive illustrated edition of fables culled from Aesop and La Fontaine, printed on fine handmade paper. Giorgio Fossati (1705�1785), born in Switzerland but active in Italy, was a… Read More

Roma [Rome]: Presso Luigi Fabri, [1813].. Small 4to. (27 x 19 cm). Contemporary maroon half morocco over marbled boards, spine with blind-stamped panels and gilt-decorated raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Engraved title-page and 15 copper-engraved plates. Some light foxing, generally a very good copy. (Colas, 2374)

Roma [Rome]: Presso Giovanni Scudellari, 1817.. Small oblong 4to. (16.5 x 21.5 cm). Contemporary maroon half morocco over marbled boards, spine with blind-stamped panels and gilt-decorated raised bands and gilt lettering, marbled endpapers. Engraved title-page and 50 copper-engraved plates. Occasional light spotting and foxing, generally a very good and attractive copy. Second edition, first published in folio 1814. (Colas, 2375)

Vanity Fair, Dec. 31, 1881. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.

[Amsterdam: c. 1648]. 38 x 49.3 cm. Original colour in outline and to cartouche and incidental illustrations. An attractive map of Radnor. Ornate vignette to title cartouche featuring a farmer with cows and sheep. Three crests to the upper edge of image, including the royal crest and the three feathers insignia of the Prince of Wales. Manuscript number at upper margin. Blank on verso. Lightly soiled at margins, else in very good condition with good bright colouring. Koeman, Vol II, 5515:2.

[London: Impensis Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, 1610].. Original uncoloured engraved map of Radnorshire trimmed to neatline and backed onto 18th century laid paper. Map dimensions 27 x 32 cm, overall backing-sheet size 32 x 40 cm. Minimal toning and spotting, generally very good. An early decorative map of Radnorshire engraved by William Kip based on the earlier maps by Elizabethan cartographer Christopher Saxton first published in the 1607 edition of William Camden's Britannia.* This example is from the first English edition of Camden's Britannia published in 1610, without any text on the verso. *Britannia, first published in 1586, was one of the most popular and influential books of the period. The work of the Elizabethan antiquarian, William Camden (1551-1623), it was a detailed historical and topographical description of Great Britain. Its patriotic sentiments, in particular, both appealed to and generated the growing sense of nationalism that was coursing through late Tudor / early Stuart… Read More

Vanity Fair, May 16, 1891. 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, December 17, 1903. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. Without text leaf.

Vanity Fair, December 17, 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, May 16, 1891. Drawn by Spy. Original chromolithograph. Page size approx. 38 x 26.5cm. Image size approx. 32 x 19cm. With original leaf of biographical text.