1991, ISBN: 9780521390910

1911. Third Impression. London, Duckworth & Co., 1911. 19.4cm x 13.5cm. VIII, 355 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some mild signs… More...

1911. Third Impression. London, Duckworth & Co., 1911. 19.4cm x 13.5cm. VIII, 355 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some mild signs of foxing throughout. Includes for example the following chapters: Rambles in Modern Troy / Peasant Homes and Hearts / Love of the Beautiful / A Ghastly Gift / Liberty and Death / Mystery of the Green Butterfly / Deliver Me From Mine Enemy / Night and Flight / Back to Buenos Ayres etc. William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. Hudson was born in the borough of Quilmes, now Florencio Varela of the greater Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. He was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine née Kemble, U.S. settlers of English and Irish origin. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. Hudson settled in England during 1874. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888–1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Day (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s. He was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Hudson's best known novel is Green Mansions (1904), and his best known non-fiction is Far Away and Long Ago (1918). Ernest Hemingway famously referred to Hudson's book The Purple Land (1885) in his novel The Sun Also Rises. In Argentina, Hudson is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. A town in Berazategui Partido and several other public places and institutions are named after him. Towards the end of his life, Hudson moved to Worthing in Sussex, England. His grave is in Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery in Worthing. (Wikipedia), 1911, 0, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1991. Thomas Hollis, a connoisseur and collector of art and antiquities, devoted the greater part of his substance and his energy to promoting the ideals of civil and religious liberty. Hollis is best known to modern bibliophiles for the distinctive bindings that he commissioned for the many books he distributed in Britain, the American colonies, and all over Europe. This book contains the first comprehensive catalogue and interpretation of his emblematic binding tools and a discussion of the several binders who worked for him. It also explores other activities that are less well known: his patronage of writers, printers, publishers, and artists, and his work as a designer of books and medals. This study should encourage a re-evaluation of Hollis's influence in the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution.Thomas Hollis, best known to modern bibliophiles for the distinctive bindings that he commissioned for the many books he distributed in Britain, the American colonies, and all over Europe. This book contains the first comprehensive catalogue and interpretation of his emblematic binding tools, and should encourage a re-evaluation of Hollis's influence in the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution.132 pages fully illustrated with 55 illustrations.. Fine as New., Cambridge Univ Pr, 1991, 5<

1990, ISBN: 9780521390910

Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Appears unread. Cover is in Very Good condition (only very light wear). Internally FINE. NOT a library discard. NO owner's … More...

Cambridge / New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Appears unread. Cover is in Very Good condition (only very light wear). Internally FINE. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked - apparently never read. 1990. First Edition. The Sandars Lectures in Bibliography. Bound in the original black cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine and over a gilt-stamped green label on the front cover. From the publisher: "Thomas Hollis, a connoisseur and collector of art and antiquities, devoted the greater part of his substance and his energy to promoting the ideals of civil and religious liberty. Hollis is best known to modern bibliophiles for the distinctive bindings that he commissioned for the many books he distributed in Britain, the American colonies, and all over Europe. This book contains the first comprehensive catalogue and interpretation of his emblematic binding tools and a discussion of the several binders who worked for him. It also explores other activities that are less well known: his patronage of writers, printers, publishers, and artists, and his work as a designer of books and medals. This study should encourage a re-evaluation of Hollis's influence in the Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution.". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good condition/No dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 151pp. 56 illustrations. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping., Cambridge University Press, 1990, 3<