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Dundee. Its Quaint and Historic Buildings. The Illustrations are from Drawings made by William Gibb.
by LAMB, Alexander Crawford
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
Dundee, George Petrie, Nethergate, 1895. Large folio (48 x 39 cm). Original maroon half crushed morocco over pebble-grained cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt, morocco dust-wrappers (a little damaged), top edge gilt, patterned endpapers in blue and gold; pp. [xvi], lix, 18, [2], errata slip, colour frontispiece, 59 tinted lithographic plates, 2 colour facsimiles of manuscript maps with explanatory letterpress on accompanying sheets; a little rubbing to extremities, initially and towards the end a little spotted; a very good copy of an uncommon and impressive work. First edition, no. 233 of the 'Small Paper Edition' (357 copies printed), signed by the author. According to the limitation note there were even 'Large Paper Copies' with a print run of 155. I very much doubt this, as this 11-kilo book is large enough. Alexander Crawford Lamb was a Scottish art collector, antiquarian, and writer. The illustrator William Gibb had studied art at Edinburgh under Robert Scott Lander before being apprenticed to the leading lithographic firm Day and Sons. Lamb and Gibb produced a lasting memory of the city as it was before the extensive demolition of the old infrastructure in the late 19th century. - No free shipping.
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- Bookseller
- Henry Sotheran Ltd.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2110868
- Title
- Dundee. Its Quaint and Historic Buildings. The Illustrations are from Drawings made by William Gibb.
- Author
- LAMB, Alexander Crawford
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
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- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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,...
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