Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife. January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904. Illustrated from Drawings and Photographs
by WADDINGTON, Mary King
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth-covered boards, titled and ruled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; ix,[1]-324pp. Bright, tight copy with text fresh and unmarked; Very Good or better. Ownership signature to front free endpaper (Anna Brooke Purcell, Richmond, Virginia; dated 1919).
Vignettes of Italian travel and residence in Rome by Mary King Waddington, wife of Anglo-French statesman William Henry Waddington, who served as Prime Minister of France from February to December, 1879 and as the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1883 to 1893.
Vignettes of Italian travel and residence in Rome by Mary King Waddington, wife of Anglo-French statesman William Henry Waddington, who served as Prime Minister of France from February to December, 1879 and as the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1883 to 1893.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56289
- Title
- Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife. January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904. Illustrated from Drawings and Photographs
- Author
- WADDINGTON, Mary King
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1905
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women; Great Britain; France; Italy;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...