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THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
by Shakespeare, William 06b
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE book, no DJ. FAE. AS NEW text, plates & tissue guards.
- Seller
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Lyndonville, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
NY: Stokes. FINE book, no DJ. FAE. AS NEW text, plates & tissue guards.. 1910. 1st American.. Hardcover. FINE book no DJ. TEG. Green cloth. Both cover lettering & cover vignette in bright gilt. 1st AM, same tp & cp dates, NAP. . Cover with two minor flaws. (1) front lower tip bumped. (2) spine ends scuffed. Both pastedown gutters lightly glue browned. No other aging, no foxing, soiling, marginalia, etc. All text block edges as bright as new. "Brentano's" ticket inside back cover. Frontis offset to previous leaf. No other plate with similar offset. Plates with captioned tissue guards, plates tipped onto leaves of a heavier stock. Last, book stays closed when stood on its spine. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quiet Friends
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001054
- Title
- THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
- Author
- Shakespeare, William 06b
- Illustrator
- Thomson did 40 color plates.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New FINE book, no DJ. FAE. AS NEW text, plates & tissue guards.
- Edition
- 1st American.
- Publisher
- Stokes
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1910
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- FINE book no DJ. TEG. Green cloth. Both cover lettering & cover, vignette in bright gilt. 1st AM, same tp & cp dates, NAP.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics;
Terms of Sale
Quiet Friends
Visa, M/C, MO, Check. Shipping is free for a "regular" weight book. But for heavier books, and multi volume sets, we ask for any additional postage. Basically we pay the first $3.
About the Seller
Quiet Friends
Biblio member since 2008
Lyndonville, New York
About Quiet Friends
We sell about 75% internet, 25% book fairs. We have been in business since the early 90's. We pack extremely well. We describe very conservatively and have only a few returns in the 5000 orders we have mailed.
Glossary
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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