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ALMANACK FOR 1884.
by GREENAWAY, Kate.:
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Routledge, 1884.. FIRST EDITION 1884 DELUXE BINDING, 130 x 90 mm, 5¼ x 3½ inches, cream imitation morocco over thin card, blind stamped ruled border to covers, beautiful gilt illustration to upper cover, gilt lettered to upper cover, all edges gilt. Coloured frontispiece, coloured floral vignette to title page and 12 very pretty half page coloured illustrations of young children. Very small bump to lower corner of upper cover and first 4 leaves, very slight pale foxing to top margin of most pages, a little in inner margins of centre page, no inscriptions. A near Fine clean copy. This larger format for the second almanack in the series was tried out after the success of the first of 1883, but the smaller size was preferred for all the rest. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46615
- Title
- ALMANACK FOR 1884.
- Author
- GREENAWAY, Kate.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- London, Routledge, 1884.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- almanac almanack Kate Greenaway de luxe deluxe binding children's
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
We have been established booksellers for 42 years. We are a postal business only (strictly no callers). We are long-standing members of the P.B.F.A. the largest trade association for antiquarian booksellers in the UK. We wrap all our parcels in new materials and all our books are insured at our expense. Books may be returned if wrongly described, all costs will be met by us. ****PLEASE NOTE: POSTAGE WILL BE CHARGED AT COST, MEANING THAT POSTAGE WILL BE REDUCED ON PARCELS WEIGHING UNDER 1 KILO, AND IT WILL BE INCREASED ON MOST PARCELS WEIGHING MORE THAN 1 KILO****
About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
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- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
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