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Elizabethan Songs in Honour of Love and Beautie
by Collected and Illustrated By Edmund H. Garrett. Introduction By Andrew Lang
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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East Granby, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1894. Title page dated 1894. Collection of verses from the Elizabethan period from such authors as Shakespeare, Drummond, Carew, Herrick, Marlowe, etc., illustrated with black and white tissue-protected plates. Three quarter teal blue-green grained leather binding by Blackwell over marbled boards, raised spine bands with gilt decorated compartments, top edge gilt, about 7.5" tall. Covers rubbed, mainly at the extremities, with a partial "coffee cup" stain to a small area of the front cover, sound binding, clean pages with some foxing to outer edges of frontis plate and title page, small chip from bottom of half-title, no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Resource Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037319
- Title
- Elizabethan Songs in Honour of Love and Beautie
- Author
- Collected and Illustrated By Edmund H. Garrett. Introduction By Andrew Lang
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1894
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- POETRY POEMS ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature, Poetry, Literary History;
Terms of Sale
Resource Books, LLC
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About the Seller
Resource Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2004
East Granby, Connecticut
About Resource Books, LLC
Resource Books, LLC deals in antiquarian and out-of-print books in a wide variety of subject matter, mainly non-fiction.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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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