The Ayrshire Homes and Haunts of Burns.
by Shelley, Henry C. [Charles]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Zurich, Switzerland
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About This Item
The beautifully made book combines Burns poems with photos of places that inspired him (photographs by the author). The book comes in its own original box and covering paper. First Edition.
Description: Publisher's cloth, decorated and titled in gilt to upper board and spine. Black endpapers. Original cardboard box. 16mo 16 × 11 cm; pp. 148. Illustrated with a lithographed frontispiece and b/w photographs. Top edge gilt, others uncut.
Condition: Externally excellent with just some minor shelfwear to corners. The box, later re-covered with paper, rubbed and bumped. Internally tightly bound throughout and largely bright and clean. A lovely copy
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Details
- Bookseller
- Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000230
- Title
- The Ayrshire Homes and Haunts of Burns.
- Author
- Shelley, Henry C. [Charles]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.82 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- 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....
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...