A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads Illustrated with Fifty Engravings, from Drawings By the First Artists
by Various
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: W. Kent & Co. , 1860. First Edition. Green Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Various. 167pp. 1860. First edition. 4to. small sized. A very good, essentially clean, tight copy in original publisher's high Victorian green cloth binding - profusely illustrated in gilt. All edges gilt. Bevelled edges. Yellow endpapers. Profusely engraved additional title page and a similar frontispiece. Some scattered spotting throughout. Some rubbing to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine with slight loss of outer cloth in several places. A very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 238970
- Title
- A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads Illustrated with Fifty Engravings, from Drawings By the First Artists
- Author
- Various
- Illustrator
- Various
- Format/Binding
- Green Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W. Kent & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Tight
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Title Page
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Edges
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