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Greenwood, James (1832-1929) - THE HATCHET THROWERS. By James Greenwood. With thirty-six illustrations, drawn on wood, by Erhest Griset, from his original designs.

Title: THE HATCHET THROWERS. By James Greenwood. With thirty-six illustrations, drawn on wood, by Erhest Griset, from his original designs.
Description: London, John Camden Hotten 1st edition 1866 Hand-coloured plates (24 full page plates +12 hand-coloured text illustrations) by Ernest Griset. . Small quarto blue gilt pictorial cloth spine gilt titled (tips and edges of spine very worn) 164pp + [12]pp pictorial publisher's catalogue. A very few isolated foxings and inner hinge paper worn through but scrim unbroken. Inscriptions to fly leaf, one Harry Enfield Llandudno dated Christmas 1865, other Barry Hirst later. *Marvelous humorous travel stories with fine woodcut illustrations hand-coloured.

Keywords: hand-colored plates humor Griset collected illustrator

Price: GBP 154.00 = appr. US$ 219.91 Seller: Abbey Antiquarian Books
- Book number: V73206

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