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Frank Fairleigh, or Scenes From the Life of a Private Pupil
by Frank Smedley
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
Blackfriars, London, undated. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: George Cruickshank. FRANK E. SMEDLEY. Frank Fairleigh, or Scenes From the Life of a Private Pupil, London: Blackfriars Publishing, undated (late 19th or early 20th century). Octavo, pp. xii, 400, red cloth boards with gilt lettering and floral decoration to spine, top edge gilt, some leaves unopened, illustrations by George Cruickshank, former owner's ID on front pastedown. Hand-colored frontispiece and title page, plus 28 monochrome plates. Condition of this book: Backstrip darkened with chip at lower spine, minor losses at upper spine, rubbed fore corners. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: George Cruickshank. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; England; Antiquarian & Rare. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54555. .
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- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54555
- Title
- Frank Fairleigh, or Scenes From the Life of a Private Pupil
- Author
- Frank Smedley
- Illustrator
- George Cruickshank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackfriars
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- undated
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Art & Design; England; Antiquarian & Rare. George Cruickshank Frank Smedley Frank Fairleigh, or Scenes From the Life of a Private Pupil
Terms of Sale
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We accept returns for any reason, with a money-back guarantee and a reasonable allowance for your return shipping costs via U.S. Postal Service.
About the Seller
Rarities etc.
Biblio member since 2007
Warwick, New York
About Rarities etc.
Rarities specializes in photos, prints and art and photography books. We also offer vintage oddities.
Glossary
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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