Epithalamion
by Spenser, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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North Tonawanda, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1895. Limited Edition. Hardcover. This edition limited to 25 copies; this copy unnumbered, with "Artist's copy" written in red above his signature on limitation page. Moderately soiled gilt dec faux vellum, mild bumping and rubbing, small split upper spine end, small spatter of black paint lower rear corner. Front hinge cracked but holding, o/w solid binding. Pages browned. Three illustrations each with a few small brown soil spots and abrasions (as if from a past failed attempt at cleaning) . No ex-lib marks, stamps or stickers. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Illustrator .
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Details
- Seller
- Old Editions Inc.
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 11858
- Title
- Epithalamion
- Author
- Spenser, Edmund
- Illustrator
- George Wharton Edwards
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1895
- Keywords
- Illustrated, Poem, Poetry, Art Nouveau
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Old Editions Inc.
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About the Seller
Old Editions Inc.
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North Tonawanda, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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