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The Daisy, or Cautionary Stories in Verse Adapted to the Ideas of Children, from Four to Eight Years Old, with Thirty Engravings
by Elizabeth Turner
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
A$77.83A$62.26
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About This Item
London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh Book. Illus. by Samuel Williams (engravings). Very Good. Red Calf with 4 Raised Bands. Thirty-First Edition. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Undated volume with introduction dated 1885, in a series of "Facsimile Reprints of Popular Children's Books of the Olden Time". Gilt lettering to spine. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Marbled endpapers. Spine slightly faded, ownership inscription to both endpapers and light foxing to margins, otherwise very good copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008822
- Title
- The Daisy, or Cautionary Stories in Verse Adapted to the Ideas of Children, from Four to Eight Years Old, with Thirty Engravings
- Author
- Elizabeth Turner
- Illustrator
- Samuel Williams (engravings)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Thirty-First Edition
- Publisher
- Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 24mo - over 5" - 5¾&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's Collectable Books;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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