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The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels.
by RACKHAM, ARTHUR: INGOLDSBY, Thomas:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, William Heinemann, 1919 repr. Hardback, approx 10 x 7.5 inches. Grey-brown cloth with gilt lettering and dark-brown illustrated designs to front and spine. Grey endpapers. With Original Dustwrapper. In very good condition, Minor rubbing to edges. (Dw a little tatty on edges, square loss lower spine) Some minor handling marks. Inside inscription on front endpaper; some pages are still uncut at edges. Plates all clean and bright. Else an excellent and very tight and clean copy. 549pp. 36 plates; 24 colour ‘tipped-in’ plates & 12 tinted full page illustrations. Many b&w illustrations within text.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87625
- Title
- The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels.
- Author
- RACKHAM, ARTHUR: INGOLDSBY, Thomas:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, William Heinemann, 1919 repr
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books (RACKHAM, ARTHUR) INGOLDSBY, Thomas: The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth & Marvels., William Heinemann, 1919, reprint, 36 plates; 24 colour ‘tipped-in’ plates & 12 tinted full page illustrations, Many b&w illustration
Terms of Sale
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
Biblio member since 2016
Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
Glossary
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- 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.
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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