SELECTED WORKS BY RICHARD JEFFERIES [attractively bound, 18-volume set.]
by Jefferies, Richard ; Eulogy By Walter Besant
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longman's, Green, and Co.; Duckworth ; Macmillan..., 1880. Book. Very Good. Three-Quarter Leather. Limited Edition. 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm). 1880 - 1904 Collection of seventeen titles bound in eighteen, including his eulogy, beautifully bound by Sotheran, an elegant and refined "arts and crafts" style; contemporary three-quarter morocco, gilt-decorated spines including floral motifs. Top edges strong gilt, other edges uncut; delicate marbled end papers. Several portrait frontispiece plates of Jefferies with tissue-guards. In near fine condition with minimal rubbing to extremities, the leather is a little faded to brown on the spines, binding firm. Contents clean and tight, a few fine spots to the endpapers, internally clean, no inscriptions.16 TITLES: HODGE AND HIS MASTERS, 1880, 1st edition, two volumes; THE LIFE OF THE FIELDS, 1884, 1st edition; THE OPEN AIR, 1885, 1st edition; THE AMATEUR POACHER, 1889 new edition; NATURE NEAR LONDON, 1893, hand-made paper edition; THE GAMEKEEPER AT HOME, 1896, new edition; THE DEWY MORN, 1900 reprint; ROUND ABOUT A GREAT ESTATE, 1903 new edition; WILD LIFE IN A SOUTHERN COUNTY, 1903 new edition; WOOD MAGIC, 1903 new impression; RED DEER, 1903 5th impression; AMARYLLIS AT THE FAIR, London 1904, new impression; BEVIS, 1904 new impression; THE STORY OF MY HEART, 1904, 8th impression; THE TOILERS OF THE FIELD, 1904, new impression; FIELD AND HEDGEROW, 1904 new impression plus Walter Besant: THE EULOGY OF RICHARD JEFFERIES, 1898, 1st edition. An attractive collection of Jefferies works uniformally bound..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033899
- Title
- SELECTED WORKS BY RICHARD JEFFERIES [attractively bound, 18-volume set.]
- Author
- Jefferies, Richard ; Eulogy By Walter Besant
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Longman's, Green, and Co.; Duckworth ; Macmillan...
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Size
- 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm)
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bindings - Fine; Literary Sets;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- New
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....