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The Jackdaw of Rhiems
by Ingoldsby, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Gay & Hancock, 1913. Poem of monks troubled by a thieving bird, and his reformation; finely illustrated with twelve tipped-in plated mounted on grey sheets, with captioned guards. Recently rebound in full oatmeal cloth, paper spine labels. Light wear, pages tanned. Text clean; 17 leaves printed one side only, plus colophon; 12 color plates.. Later Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Charles Folkard. Folio.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p1470os
- Title
- The Jackdaw of Rhiems
- Author
- Ingoldsby, Thomas
- Illustrator
- Charles Folkard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- Gay & Hancock
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Keywords
- Poetry, Satire, Religion, Monks, Illustrated Books
- Size
- Folio
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
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- 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....
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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