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Gammer Grethel's Fairy Tales
by Grethel, Gammer
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, UK: Alexander Moring, 1902. Hardcover. Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cruikshank and Others. 360pp, black and white frontispiece tissue-guarded). Illustrated with numerous steel engravings. Blue cloth-covered boards; three colour illustration and titles on front, three colour illustration and gilt titles on spine. Wear to covers. Bumped spine ends and corners, cloth wearing through. Top text block edge gilt, other edges untrimmed and foxing. Binding loose. Missing front free endpaper. Front gutter reinforced with binder's tape. Previous owner's name written into 'This book belongs to' box on front paste down. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight, barring some foxing. No dust jacket. 8vo. From the popular stories of the brothers Grimm. Translated by Edgar Taylor.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010674
- Title
- Gammer Grethel's Fairy Tales
- Author
- Grethel, Gammer
- Illustrator
- Cruikshank and Others
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alexander Moring
- Place of Publication
- London, UK
- Date Published
- 1902
- Keywords
- Fairy Tales
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Cloth
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