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Etchings by the Late William Makepeace Thackeray while at Cambridge Illustrative of University Life etc etc.: Now First Published from the Original Plates
by William Thackeray
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, edges and corners rubbed, boards soiled and toned, foxed to inner boards and endpapers but etching plates remain brig
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Henry Sotheran & Co, 1878. First Edition. Hardcover [octavo], publisher's drab boards backed with brown cloth, 11 hand-colored plates produced recto only on 8 leaves (with three leaves bearing a pair of related plates). Very Good, edges and corners rubbed, boards soiled and toned, foxed to inner boards and endpapers but etching plates remain bright and mostly clean save the stray fox mark, some light offsetting from hand-coloring to opposite blank page.. First edition of Thackeray's humorous etchings of University life, reproduced from the original plates and hand-colored by the publishers. Black and white edition is considerably more common on the market -- as of this cataloging, ours is the only hand-colored found.
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- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1172
- Title
- Etchings by the Late William Makepeace Thackeray while at Cambridge Illustrative of University Life etc etc.
- Author
- William Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover [octavo], publisher's drab boards backed with brown cloth, 11 hand-colored plates produced recto only on 8 leaves (wit
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, edges and corners rubbed, boards soiled and toned, foxed to inner boards and endpapers but etching plates remain brig
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Sotheran & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1878
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- 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...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
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