Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others
by Bewick, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Madison, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh: Ballantyne, Hanson & Co., 1879. 384 pp. Number 53 in a limited 100 print run. Bound in full vellum with pictorial front board. Gilt details and page edges, some light soiling to leather. Binding and hinges are mostly sound, however, slight break to endpapers hinges especially the back board. Minimal foxing. Elaborately illustrated by the author and printed on Whatman paper. Previous bookseller's sticker inside the back board. From the original wood engravings by the author. A very good, scarce book.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Illus. by Thomas Bewick. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 032636
- Title
- Bewick's Select Fables of Aesop and Others
- Author
- Bewick, Thomas
- Illustrator
- Thomas Bewick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1879
- Keywords
- Fables, Stories, Aesop's
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...