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The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais
by Millais, John Guille
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- Very Good
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Metheun & Co., 1899. Undetermined. very good. 1st Edition. 446; 511pp. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth boards with elaborate gilt decoration and title on front, gilt title and similar decoration of spine. Slight fading at joint front in Volume I. Minor bumping to head and tail of spine, both volumes. 9 black-and-white photographs, and 309 black-and-white illustrations in text throughout both volumes. Text-block of Volume II slightly convened. Volume II has bookplate on paste-down end-paper which has offset very lightly on front free end-paper. very good Bookplate of John Laidlay Bashford. Bashford was a journalist and social historian. For eighteen years he served as the Berlin correspondent to the London Daily Telegraph. Sir John Everett Millais was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. An excellent addition to any Pre-Raphaelite collection. 1899
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 139829
- Title
- The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais
- Author
- Millais, John Guille
- Format/Binding
- Undetermined
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Metheun & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
- Keywords
- Art|Illustrator|Pre-Raphaelites|Victorian Age
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- Offset
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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