VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
by MUIR, Percy (Percy Horace), 1894-1979 :
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York : Praeger Publishers, (1971). First edition : the American issue. A well illustrated and wide-ranging survey, by one of the best of antiquarian booksellers, of (mainly British) illustrated books of the nineteenth century - with chapters on chapbooks; Thomas Bewick and George Cruikshank; line engraving; the periodicals; the Dalziels; the advent of colour; fin-de-siècle; foreign influence; America, etc. Crown 4to (26cm). (xvi),(288)pp. Five colour plates. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Original orange cloth, blocked and lettered in gilt; top edge black; a very good and bright copy in the dust-jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24799
- Title
- VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
- Author
- MUIR, Percy (Percy Horace), 1894-1979 :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York : Praeger Publishers, (1971).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Bibliography, Publishing History, Illustrated Books, Book Collecting
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ash Rare Books
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London
About Ash Rare Books
Ash Rare Books. Founded in 1946 and long one of London's more interesting small book businesses. Owned and run by Laurence Worms, former President of the ABA.
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