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EMMA LADY HAMILTON. AN OLD STORY RE-TOLD
by Gamlin, Hilda
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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UPLAND, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Edward Howell, 1891. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. EMMA LADY HAMILTON AN OLD STORY RE-TOLD by Hilda Gamlin. Published in Liverpool & London in 1891 by Edward Howell. First edition, 299 pp. Quarto, 11" x 8". Maroon cloth boards, vellum spine. Gilt stamped title to spine, gilt ornament to front cover. Gilt top edge. Illustrations include frontispiece portrait of Lady Hamilton, and line drawings of her in various acting roles. Condition: Very Good. Board covers rubbed. Faint light stain to front cover. Foxing from front endpaper through vii, then the occasional scattered foxing throughout. See photos. Foxing on rear endpaper. Bottom quarter of spine vellum separated, repaired.
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- Bookseller
- Cedar Tree Antiques
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 115553
- Title
- EMMA LADY HAMILTON. AN OLD STORY RE-TOLD
- Author
- Gamlin, Hilda
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Howell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1891
- Pages
- 299
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Lord Nelson; Emma Lady Hamilton Historical
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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. ...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
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