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The Red Romance Book.
by LANG, Andrew (ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1905. First edition, first impression. Produced in the same attractively bound and illustrated format as Lang's Fairy Books, this collection of medieval and renaissance tales includes episodes from The Fairie Queene, Don Quixote, and Orlando Furioso. Henry Justice Ford's (1860-1941) artwork for Lang's books "provided a benchmark in fantasy illustration" (Grolier). Though the Fairy Books are credited to Andrew Lang (1844-1912), he acknowledged in the preface to Lilac (1910) that they "have been almost wholly the work of Mrs [Leonora] Lang, who has translated and adapted them from the French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, and other languages". Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered and stamped with chivalric device in gilt, front cover gilt-blocked with a knight on horseback saving a maiden from a dragon, illustrated endpapers, edges gilt. Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 8 colour plates, 28 uncoloured engraved plates, further engravings in the text, all by H. J. Ford. Spine mildly sunned, gilt unaffected and bright, bumps to spine ends, cosmetic splits to front inner hinge, contents clean. A near-fine copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172192
- Title
- The Red Romance Book.
- Author
- LANG, Andrew (ed.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,
- Date Published
- 1905
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
All major credit cards are accepted. Both UK pounds and US dollars (exchange rate to be agreed) accepted. Books may be returned within 14 days of receipt for any reason, please notify first of returned goods.
About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- 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...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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