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THE VISION OF SIR LOUNFAL
by James Russell Lowell
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Good
- Seller
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Buffalo, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton , Mifflin and Company ( The Riverside Press Cambridge ), 1888. Book. Illus. by Various Artist. Fine. Hardcover. 1888 , Hardcover in brown calf's leather on the spine and ivory color paper with gilt tooling on the spine and red illustration on the front board , all by Sarah Wyman Whitman ( 1842 - 1904 ) A renowned book artist and one of the most important binding designers during the golden age of illustration and publishers use of decorative trade bindings one of the Arts & Craft book binders. The designs are also on the end pages . This very scarce copy has 10 artist's proofs engraved in wood and 3 fac-simile reproduction of artist drawings in the text. The ten artist are : J.W. ALAEXANDER , BRUCE CRANE , F.W. FREER , R.SWAIN GIFFORD, ALFRED KAPPES , H.S. MOWBRAY , WALTER SHIRLAW , and F. HOPKINSON SMITH. Condition : Very Fine on the book , plain paper dust jacket good with spits at the folds . Clam boxfor the book is in very good condition with edge ware rubs and repair at two corners. Some light foxing at the two first pages . A very scarce complete edition of the book and very hard to find in any condition . Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Gibbs Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021519-E
- Title
- THE VISION OF SIR LOUNFAL
- Author
- James Russell Lowell
- Illustrator
- Various Artist
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Houghton , Mifflin and Company ( The Riverside Press Cambridge )
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1888
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- POETRY / ARTISTS ART SCARCE BINDINGS JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL WOOD CUT ENGRAVINGS THE HOLY GRAIL .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Art / Illustrated;
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
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