The Fables of La Fontaine
by La Fontaine, Jean de; Walter Thornbury; Gustave Doré (Illustrator)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Cassell Publishing Company, 1885. Hardcover. Very Good. 175pp. Quarto [29.5cm]. Rebound in modern tan leatherette. Title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Additionally, the front board is decorated with a large blind stamped illustration of a lyre. Very light soiling to boards. Textblock is toned. Sporadic closed tears throughout have been unprofessionally backed with tape. Gutter also occasionally reinforced with tape. Heavily illustrated with elaborate wood engravings by Gustave Doré.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64669
- Title
- The Fables of La Fontaine
- Author
- La Fontaine, Jean de; Walter Thornbury; Gustave Doré (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- animals; france; children's books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2006
Salt Lake City, Utah
About Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Ken Sanders Rare Books is a full service antiquarian bookshop in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. We carry an ever-changing inventory of art, ephemera, maps, photography, and postcards in addition to a vast selection of used and rare books along with a few new books. We actively purchase and appraise books in all fields.
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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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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....
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.