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Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape. Engraved by the brothers Dalziel, with pictures in word by Tom Taylor. India Proof Edition.
by Foster, Birket & Taylor, Tom
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued
- Seller
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881. First edition thus. "New Edition: India Proof Edition, printed at hand press from the original wood blocks." Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, number 362. Full vellum and gilt. Published London: George Routledge and Sons, c1881. Folio, 11 3/4" x 15 3/4", unpaginated, 30 full page illustrations - lovely views of rural England, wood-engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, with verses and poems by Tom Taylor, plus two Dalziel advertisement leaves and a colophon leaf of Camden Press. Bound in full vellum over beveled boards, with gilt and brown titles, gilt, brown and orange cover designs. Slight loss and rub at the heel, minor rub/soil to covers, else very good plus. Internally near fine, pages and plates, clean, bright with only light, occasional foxing. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued. Illus. by Foster, Birket. Folio.
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- Bookseller
- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008526
- Title
- Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape. Engraved by the brothers Dalziel, with pictures in word by Tom Taylor. India Proof Edition.
- Author
- Foster, Birket & Taylor, Tom
- Illustrator
- Foster, Birket
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1881
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- Folio
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About the Seller
The Wild Muse
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Granville, New York
About The Wild Muse
Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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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...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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. ...
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