The Bon Gaultier Ballads (the Book of Ballads )
by Bon Gaultier ( Sir Theodore Martin & William Aytoun )
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Doyle, Leech & Crowquill. Fifteenth Edition. Ballads Illustrated with many Humerous Drawings. Frontish is a Full Page Comic Illustration of a seated Writer wearing a Fez. 292 Pages + Publisher's adverts. Red cloth Cover with Bright Gilt Figure (as on Frontis) on Front with black lettering. Another humerous Gilt figure in a Turban with gilt lettering on spine. Bevelled Edges. Brown endpapers. Pages in very nice, clean condition, only a penciled 2/6 on endpaper. Very slight wear to cover, ends bumped. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003928
- Title
- The Bon Gaultier Ballads (the Book of Ballads )
- Author
- Bon Gaultier ( Sir Theodore Martin & William Aytoun )
- Illustrator
- Doyle, Leech & Crowquill
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- William Blackwood & Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh & London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- HUMOUR & CARTOONS/LEECH/BON GAULTIER/HUMEROUS BALLADS/ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humor;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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About Cornish Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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