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English Porcelain Figures of the XVIII Century
by King, William
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/fair
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
London: The Medici Society, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 7/8" X 7 3/4". xi, 15pp, 7 tissue-guarded color plates, 72 monochrome plates. Very heavy wear to dust jacket, with only 2 1/2" of spine present, edgewear, small tears to extremities, sunning, dust soiling, and scattered rubbing. Pictorial label to dust jacket in very nice condition. Red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Moderate edgewear to binding, with bumping to extremities. Rear hinge a touch tender. Binding remains sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A quite lovely copy in worn dust jacket of this guide to 18th Century English porcelain figures by William King of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3015
- Title
- English Porcelain Figures of the XVIII Century
- Author
- King, William
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Medici Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1925
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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