The Sylph or Ladies Pocket Melodist. Edited by T. Williams
by Williams (Thomas) -editor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: T. Williams, [1825]. First edition.. anticat16. 8vo. 48pp. Contemporary green boards, red leather spine designed and lettered in gilt. Grey coated end papers. Decorative title page and frontispiece of Madame Vestris. Rubbed at edges, some wear to tips and spine ends, some foxing and offsetting to pages, a few bent page corners; in general a very good copy. On the spine is: Vol. I; evidently the only volume published. Published undated, the date of 1825 is obtained from the copy in the British Library.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51044
- Title
- The Sylph or Ladies Pocket Melodist. Edited by T. Williams
- Author
- Williams (Thomas) -editor
- Illustrator
- anticat16
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: T. Williams, [1825]. First edition.
- Keywords
- music melody melodist sylph songs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music;
Terms of Sale
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Prices are in US Dollars. Books are guaranteed to be as described. Books may be returned within a reasonable length of time. Paypal Payments are made to: bill@rainbownorth.com
About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...