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The Hermit of Warkworth. A Northumberland Ballad in Three Fits.
by Percy, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Alnwick; J. Catnach, 1807., 1807. Hard Cover. SECOND EDITION with waterfall vignette to p. x and without half-title. Large paper copy. Quarto, pp. 102. 13 illustrations of which 3 plates designed by Mr Craig including frontispiece and others within text, engraved on wood by Thomas Bewick. Polished half-calf with 5 raised bands, gilt titles to maroon and black labels to spine and gilt floral decoration to compartments, pebbled cloth-covered boards. Calf very slightly scuffed. Endpapers lightly foxed with bookplate of Geo. Skelly, the noted Bewick collector, to front paste-down, very similar though not identical to the Bewick blank plate to p. 263 "Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick". Title page and subsequent dedication leaf and pp. 71-74 lightly corner creased; small indentation to upper margin throughout. A Very Good copy in handsome binding. Bestselling publication in verse by Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, still being printed in 1847. The wood engravings were of limited monetary benefit to Bewick, who had been obliged to visit Craig in London for the illustrations, and had incurred associated expenses which it is doubtful were ever recovered. Tattersfield, Nigel: Thomas Bewick The Complete Illustrative Work, pp. 286-288 & Tattersfield, Nigel: Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick p.263.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Keel Row Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9121
- Title
- The Hermit of Warkworth. A Northumberland Ballad in Three Fits.
- Author
- Percy, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alnwick; J. Catnach, 1807.
- Date Published
- 1807
- Keywords
- Local History
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About the Seller
Keel Row Books
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Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear
About Keel Row Books
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Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
Established 1980. Members: ILAB/ABA/PBFA
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- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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....
- Bookplate
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Quarto
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