Life and Labours of Hablot Knight Browne is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature ...
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Life and Labours of Hablot Knight Browne is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
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Add this copy of Life and Labours of Hablot Knight Browne to cart. $27.78, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2017 by Hansebooks.
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Add this copy of Life and Labours of Hablot Knight Browne, "Phiz" to cart. $198.56, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1884 by Chapman and Hall.
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Hablot Knight Browne [Phiz]; Walter G. Browne. Very Good. A signed, limited edition biography of the life and work of famed Victorian era illustrator Hablot Knight Brown, better known as Phiz. Number eleven of two hundred limited edition copies produced, initialled by the author-David Croal Thomson-to the colophon. The engraved portrait frontispiece of the subject of the work, etched by Charles O. Murray from an oil painting by Phiz's son Walter G. Browne, is signed by both Murray and Walter G. Browne. Illustrated with the aforementioned frontispiece, and thirty-four further plates of Phiz's work. Collated, complete. With numerous clippings related to Phiz's illustrations pasted to the front pastedown and two rear blanks. One advertisement to the rear of the work. Phiz illustrated works from authors including Charles Dickens, Charles Lever, and Harrison Ainsworth. Of the ten books by Dickens which Phiz illustrated, he is most known for David Copperfield, Pickwick, Dombey and Son, Martin Chuzzlewit and Bleak House. Browne made several drawings for Punch in his early days and also towards the end of his life. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Rear joint and tail of front joint starting, with boards holding firm. Front hinge starting, board holding firm. One clipping to front pastedown, with numerous clippings pasted to two rear blanks. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with only the odd spot or area of discolouration. Very Good.
