Easter Eggs.
by From the German by Christoph von Schmid
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Bell & Sons, 1908. 1st Edition First Thus. Pictorial Boards. Good+. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. M. V. Wheelhouse. 1908, first edition. Size octavo, 9.75" tall, 59 pages. Dark taupe pictorial paper covered boards, the front cover has titles printed in red, blue and black and illustration of a cock, a hen and 3 chicks and a number of eggs, red titles to the spine, pictorial paste-downs and end-papers, title page printed in red and black and illustration with cock, 2 hens and five chicks. Condition good plus, corners, hinges and spine ends rubbed, covers and spine a bit age darkened, spine a little sunned dark too, offsetting and light spotting to end-papers, few faint spots to margins of pages. The plates are nice and clean with no foxing as they have been printed on to glossy paper. Beautifully illustrated by M. V. Wheelhouse with colour frontispiece and five further colour plates and vignette illustrations at the start and end of each chapter.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017912
- Title
- Easter Eggs.
- Author
- From the German by Christoph von Schmid
- Illustrator
- M. V. Wheelhouse
- Format/Binding
- Pictorial Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition First Thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Bell & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
- Pages
- 59
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Keywords
- FICTION FAIRY TALES CAUTIONARY TALES CHILDREN'S CHILD'S YOUNG PEOPLE BOYS GIRLS JUVENILE ILLUSTRATED
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
Biblio member since 2007
Blackpool, Lancashire
About Lazarus Books Limited
We are a small family business located in Blackpool, England. We stock a varied range of Antiquarian and Collectable Books; Antiquarian Holy Bibles, Fine Bindings, Literature, Poetry, Military, Travel, First Editions, Illustrated, Childrens', Signed Books and more.
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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....
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