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Green Arras
by Housman, Laurence;
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Way and Williams/John Lane Bodley Head: Chicago and London, 1896. First Edition. Octavo. viii, 90pp. 16pp. publisher's ads. Houseman's pre-Raphaelite style was printed by R. Folkard and Son, London, on wove paper, untrimmed. Bound in green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt, spine gilt, title page and frontispiece beautifully decorated, large chapter initials, illustrated with five full page illustrations, light scattered foxing to first handfull of leaves incluing title and frontispiece and along fore-edges. A very nice copy clean and bright. [#31 in The Publishing Activities of Way & Williams, Chicago, 1895-98; Way & Williams #33; Joe W. Kraus in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Second Quarter, 1976, Vol. 70, No. 2 (Second Quarter, 1976), pp. 221-260.].
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Details
- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028633
- Title
- Green Arras
- Author
- Housman, Laurence;
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chicago and London
- Place of Publication
- Way and Williams/John Lane Bodley Head
- Date Published
- 1896
- Keywords
- Fine Printing in Chicago, 19th Century;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
Biblio member since 2006
Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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