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Binding, Fine - Riviere & Son) Essays on English Literature.
by McNicoll, Thomas
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1861. RARE last appearance of a copy at auction 1927 (RBH). One of the rarest of the Pickering impressions. In signed Riviere & Son binding of red polished calf, the back ornately tooled in gilt, triple gilt rules to covers, marbled end papers, top edge gilt, intricate inner dentelles in gilt. Near Fine, scant rubs to covers, as handsome a copy as one might hope to find. Thomas McNicoll was the first editor of The London Quarterly Review. . First Edition. Polished Calf. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. Small 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008230
- Title
- Binding, Fine - Riviere & Son) Essays on English Literature.
- Author
- McNicoll, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Basil Montagu Pickering
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1861
- Size
- Small 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Fine Bindings; Nineteenth Century;
Terms of Sale
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Bloomington, Indiana
About Dale Steffey Books, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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