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The Story of Rosina and other Verses
by Austin Dobson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Indeed
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. , 1895. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 5" . Hugh Thomson. Hugh Thomson illustrated edition of this book of verses by Austin Dobson. The first trade edition of this work. Delightful collection of poems by English poet and essayist Henry Austin Dobson. Adorned with illustrations by celebrated illustrator Hugh Thomson. In the original publisher's full cloth binding with decorative gilt embossing to boards and spine, gilt to edges. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting affecting first and last few leaves, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 859A69
- Title
- The Story of Rosina and other Verses
- Author
- Austin Dobson
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Indeed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- 7" by 5"
- Keywords
- austin dobson hugh thomson illustrated hugh thomson
Terms of Sale
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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