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GEMS FROM THE POETS ILLUSTRATED FROM THE ORIGIANL DESIGNS BY F.A. LYDON
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1865. Book. Illus. by F. A. Lydon. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 4to. Pp. 60, plus 28 color plates + title page vignette. Contemporary full blue pebbled leather, ornate gilt detail to front board, armorial vignette to the front and rear board, generous gilt dentelles,spine faded and rubbed, decoration remains by virtue of blind stamp detail. Contents good and tight, the original marbled end-papers are unmarked, all edges gilt, spotting to reverse of endpapers and a few of the first and last pages, the plates with tissue guards are generally clean and bright with a little scattered foxing to text and edges. A very good copy with outstanding coloured plates printed by Benjamin Fawcett, Driffield. [Ruari and Antonio McLean 38 Charles Griffin & Co. 1865].
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 035404
- Title
- GEMS FROM THE POETS ILLUSTRATED FROM THE ORIGIANL DESIGNS BY F.A. LYDON
- Illustrator
- F. A. Lydon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Charles Griffin and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Illustrated;
Terms of Sale
Loe Books
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About the Seller
Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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Glossary
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- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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