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Edward Lear on My Shelves
by Field, Wm. B. Osgood
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Munich: Privately Printed at the Bremer Press, 1923. 455pp, [1], original quarter cloth and boards with original paper label to spine. Spine slightly dulled, label browned, minor splits to joints at head of spine, minor chipping to foot of spine, covers slightly faded to edges, corners bumped. Internally bright and clean. Number one hundred and eight of one hundred and fifty-five copies, 'numbered and signed' according to the colophon, but I can see no evidence of it being signed (presumably as issued?). Printed on Zanders handmade paper by The Bremer Press in Munich, with five hand-coloured double-page landscapes by Annette von Eckardt. First Edition. Quarter Cloth and Boards. Good+. Illus. by Lear, Edward. Folio. Limited Edition.
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- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001299
- Title
- Edward Lear on My Shelves
- Author
- Field, Wm. B. Osgood
- Illustrator
- Lear, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Privately Printed at the Bremer Press
- Place of Publication
- Munich
- Date Published
- 1923
- Keywords
- Lear
- Size
- Folio
Terms of Sale
Temple Rare Books
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About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
Biblio member since 2012
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Temple Rare Books
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Glossary
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- 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....
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
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