Country Sketches for City Dwellers by RAWNSLEY, MRS. WILLINGHAM - 1908

London:: Adam and Charles Black,, 1908.. publisher's green decorated cloth. t.e.g.. 1913 ink gift inscription; spine a little tanned; slight use to cloth; tight and sound. . 8vo,. With sixteen full-page illustrations in colour..

Adam & Charles Black, 1908. Hardcover. Good. 1908. No edition remarks. 166 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are moderately tanned with mild foxing. Mild cracking to gutters and front hinge. Moderate thumb-marking present. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and endpaper. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Mild water stains and droplets to surfaces. Mild warping to front board.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. No Stated Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good-/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley. Victorian depiction of the English countryside - "Drawn and Described by Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley" - 166 pp. with 16 full color reproductions of the lady's art. Green boards with gilt leaf motif and print. Boards have slight spotting with a little darkening, as is the spine. Corners and spine ends have light bumping. Pages are age-yellowed and edges have foxing/spotting. End papers are fairly heavily foxed, and pages have occasional foxing, spotting and damp stains - none of which affect text or the lovely illustrations. Opens to gutter in places. A lovely reminder of a simpler and more genteel time.

London:: Adam and Charles Black,, 1908.. First edition.. publisher's decorated cloth; t.e.g.. Endsheets tanned; 1913 ink gift inscription; spine slightly faded; tight and sound.. . 8vo,. With sixteen full-page illustrations in colour..

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. Hardcover. Very good. 7 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Color plates. Condition is VERY GOOD ; front has a couple of minor spots, mild edge wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. Endpapers toned/ foxed. Art. Stax.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. First edition, 1908. With 16 tissue-protected color plates of English country scenes. Green cloth printed in gilt and dark green, top edge gilt. Good to very good condition with very slight fading to the spine, lettering and decoration bright and clear, front hinge internally cracked but secure, sound text block, clean pages, no names or other markings.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. First edition (hardback). 8vo (23cm by 16cm), x, 166pp. 16 colour plates by the author. Original green cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine, top edge gilt. There is some foxing of the preliminary pages, and some chafing to the leading edge of several pages; overall, this book is in good to very good condition. Part of the 7/6 series of A&C Black colour books. Inman 140.

Hardbound. Fine. With 16 full-page illustrations in colour. First edition. London (Adam & Charles Black) 1908. A fine copy, top edge gilt

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6.5". Unnamed. A handsome first edition copy of this charming collection of sketches on the English countryside by Alice Julia Rawnsley; copiously illustrated throughout. This copy is lacking the original dustwrapper, as usual. With publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work, and author's advertisement facing the half title page. Collated complete with sixteen beautiful coloured plates, each with a protective tissue guard. In the publisher's original cloth binding with gilst stamped design to the front board and spine. Externally excellent, with slight bumping to extremities and head and tail of spine. Slight fading to spine, as expected with this colour binding. Small marks to upper extremity of rear board. Slight offsetting and scattered spotting to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages slightly age toned to extremities but very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1908 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9.5" by 7". Mrs. Willingham Rawnsley. An attractively bound first edition study of the English countryside, illustrated throughout with the charming colour plates of the author. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated celebration of the English countryside from Mrs. Alice Rawnsley, published at the author's own expense in a 2000 copy run.Chapters include 'A Winter Walk in Surrey', 'A Woodland Vision', 'The Surrey Spring' and 'The Charm of Apple-Trees'.Illustrated with sixteen full colour plates from Rawnsley, each with a captioned tissue guard. Collated, complete.With two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound. Significant spotting to half title, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good Indeed