Gamosagammon; Or, Hints on Hymen, for the Use of Parties about to Connubialize (Printer's dummy)
by ROWLEY, Hugh
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: John Camden Hotten, nd. Cloth. Good. xv, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 32, 16, [32] p. 29 cm. 69 vignettes or small line drawings (title page vignette, 3 in introduction, same 9 repeated in each section). Green cloth hardcover with gold print. All edges gilt. Bevelled edges. Some soiling to covers, softened spine ends, bumped corners. A few tiny tears. Some spotting within, especially first few pages.
Apparently a kind of printers' dummy. Chapters 1 to 5 repeated in each 32-page section, with half the text repeated in last section and 32 blank pages at end.
Apparently a kind of printers' dummy. Chapters 1 to 5 repeated in each 32-page section, with half the text repeated in last section and 32 blank pages at end.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 111948
- Title
- Gamosagammon; Or, Hints on Hymen, for the Use of Parties about to Connubialize (Printer's dummy)
- Author
- ROWLEY, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Camden Hotten
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- nd
- Keywords
- Printer's dummies, Printers' dummies, Printing, Marriage, Humour
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...