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The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century, with Fifty Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
by Dobson, Austin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1892 Printed at the Chiswick Press, London. First Edition, 2nd impression. Hard cover, crown 8 vo., in publisher's original ruby red cloth with gilt pictorial decoration, beveled edged boards, 89 pp., No dust jacket present. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Condition: Very Good+ overall. The exterior looks Near Fine, with minimal rubbing or shelf wear, remaining bright and fresh. The Interior is about Very Good, with the usual light scattered foxing, affecting some plate margins, the tissue guard on frontispiece and to pastedowns. However, most pages are bright and binding is tight. A pictorial bookplate of an Oxford academic appears on the front pastedown. Literature: Francis Edwin Murray (1900) No. X, p14.. First Edition, 2nd Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8153
- Title
- The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century, with Fifty Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
- Author
- Dobson, Austin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, 2nd Impression
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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selling Rare, Antiquarian and "other interesting finds" to individuals and institutions around the world. Some of our books are now housed among the world's leading libraries and collections.
We work to promote the significance of a wide variety of ideas, from whatever era they might originate. We celebrate, and work to preserve, the artistry of the printed page, the handwritten word, and the craftsmanship of the hand-made object in today's virtual, digital world.
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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