The Purple Book of Book-Plates (Author Signature)
by Simpson, Joseph W. & Wilbur Macey Stone
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Published for the Triptych by M.F. Mansfield & Co., 1901. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 16mo. Unpaginated (26 pages printed on one side bound with purple thread) Each page decorated with book plate examples from Simpson and Stone. Limited to 350 copies. Not a perfect copy; lacking the outer covers with some age toning around the lightly creased edges. The original endpapers are present but not attached to the main text. Here, Simpson has signed his gift to his friend, Canadian poet and novelist, Frederick Niven (1878-1944) String bound from the title page on.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dale Cournoyer Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010092
- Title
- The Purple Book of Book-Plates (Author Signature)
- Author
- Simpson, Joseph W. & Wilbur Macey Stone
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Published for the Triptych by M.F. Mansfield & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 16mo
- Keywords
- book plates, bookplates, library art. biblio ephemera, Joseph Simpson, Frederick Niven, signed copy.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books on Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dale Cournoyer Books
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Victoria, British Columbia
About Dale Cournoyer Books
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...