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Some British Ballads
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Constable, 1919. 8, [2], 170pp, [2], original quarter vellum and boards, gilt to spine and covers, t.e.g. Slightly rubbed, corners bumped, light foxing to edges of text block, occasional hint of foxing, especially to foot of last couple of text leaves, but internally generally quite bright and clean. With sixteen tissue guarded colour plates by Rackham. Number five hundred and twenty-five of five hundred and seventy-five copies, signed by Rackham to limitation leaf. Now housed in a leather entry cloth slipcase. Riall, page 137. Signed by Illustrator. First Thus. Quarter Vellum and Boards. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Rackham, Arthur. 4to. Limited Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001352
- Title
- Some British Ballads
- Illustrator
- Rackham, Arthur
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus
- Publisher
- Constable
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1919
- Size
- 4to
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Rackham, Signed
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
Biblio member since 2012
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Temple Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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