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The Biglow Papers: by James Russell Lowell with additional notes, an enlarged glossary, and coloured illustrations by George Cruikshank [First series]
by Lowell, James Russell
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London: John Camden Hotten, 1861. Hardcover. Very Good +. Cruikshank, George. Second English edition. xvi, 200, [8] p.: frontispiece and 2 additional leaves of plates, all hand-colored; 18 cm. Contemporary dark blue crushed French levant with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled spine title. Top page edges gilt. Gilt-tooled turn-ins. Blue fabric endpapers. Dark blue ribbon bookmark. Small binder's stamp on front free endpaper verso: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Notice concerning the illustrations formerly inserted between frontispiece and title page, now loose. At head of title: The Choicest Humorous Poetry of the Age. Publisher's advertisements on 8 unpaginated pages following text. Bound in following the advertisements are the original publisher's cloth binding. Cohn, George Cruikshank, 518; BAL, 13275. First series, with preface by J.C. Hotten dated 1859 and reproduction of the American title page to the 4th edition. In Very Good+ Condition: edges lightly rubbed; frontispiece partially separated at head; clean and tight.
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- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Title
- The Biglow Papers: by James Russell Lowell with additional notes, an enlarged glossary, and coloured illustrations by George Cruikshank [First series]
- Author
- Lowell, James Russell
- Illustrator
- Cruikshank, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Camden Hotten
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1861
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Humor; Fine Binding & Printing;
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