FORE-EDGE PAINTING - Poems
by GRAY, THOMAS
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
[Eton]: Printed at The Eton College Press, 1902. Full-Leather. Near Fine. Quarto. Bound by Spottiswoode & Co. in full smooth calf binding with gilt decorated border to both upper and lower boards and gilt-stamped crest with a lion rampant, 5 raised bands with gilt decorated compartments, gilt-stamped green leather title label, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Printed presentation plate bound-in, gifted to Robert Lindsay Wood and signed by the Head-Master of Eton at the time, Edmond Warre. FORE-EDGE PAINTING of a bright and colourful Pre-Raphaelite, pastoral scene. Pp. xiv, 164, engraved frontispiece portrait after Benjamin Wilson, plus 3 engravings by Charles W. Radclyffe on Chine Colle (or perhaps Oxford India paper) and mounted, head and tail pieces, some initial letters. Bit of spotting to leather of upper cover, hint of offsetting to pages opposite the plates, otherwise a near fine, clean, crisp, tight copy with a beautiful fore-edge painting. Handsome on the shelf.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 38940
- Title
- FORE-EDGE PAINTING - Poems
- Author
- GRAY, THOMAS
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed at The Eton College Press
- Place of Publication
- [Eton]
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Fore-edge Paintings
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Raised Band(s)
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Fine
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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