The Blessed Damozel
by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel & Kenyon Cox (Illust. ) & Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Afterword)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Good. 1886. First Edition. Hardcover. Toned plates; rubricated initials; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 75 pages; 1st edition. Folio HC in original brown cloth with beveled edges and pictorial designs. Top edge gilt. Soundly bound with decorative emblem patterned endsheets. The gilt and color if the cover board design is almost entirely rubbed away and lost, though the gilt designs to the spine are reasonably bright and complete. Light to moderate mottling / soiling to cloth of the upper board; heavier mottling and damp staining to the surface of the rear board. Light shallow damp line to the bottom edge of the last 1/3 of the pages. Foxing and spotting to the very generous margins of most of the pages; the sepia toned reproductions of the Cox plates are generally clean and undisturbed by the margin spotting. Bound with a generous number of blank endsheets at front and rear. Van Rensselaer's appendix text of 11 unnumbered pages is appended at rear. Light fraying to cloth at corner tips and spine ends. Good only copy ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. .
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- Bookseller
- DogStar Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39380
- Title
- The Blessed Damozel
- Author
- Rossetti, Dante Gabriel & Kenyon Cox (Illust. ) & Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer (Afterword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1886
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art History / Artist Monographs; Books on Books; Decorative Arts;
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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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...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- First Edition
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Folio
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