The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi? In Hindostan, A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos
by Quiz (Combe, William)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Thomas Tegg, 1816. First Edition. Cloth with Slipcase. Good Plus. Rowlandson, Thomas. 4to. Half red morocco slipcase. 27 handcolored plates, including fold-out frontis, and one sepia plate, by Rowlandson. viii + 252 pp. Page numbers 73/74 repeated, different content. A fair amount of soilage to the fold-out frontis, with small chip in right margin. Tape repair on backside of one fold. Some light soilage in rest of book, a few spots a bit grubby, but generally more toned than soiled, and much of text and plates otherwise clean. Colors of plates fresh and bright. Slipcase is half morocco over red cloth. Inner folder missing ribbon but otherwise clean. Outer box very solid but some scuffing to leather on spine. Spine with raised bands. Spine browned slightly from red as appears on front and rear. Slight discoloration to red cloth, top 1/2 inch, on one side. Otherwise slipcase only minor shelfwear. Contemporary boards are soiled. Spine rebacked, partly preserving original title label.
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- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000295
- Title
- The Grand Master, or Adventures of Qui Hi? In Hindostan, A Hudibrastic Poem in Eight Cantos
- Author
- Quiz (Combe, William)
- Illustrator
- Rowlandson, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Cloth with Slipcase
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Tegg
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1816
- Keywords
- Illustrated Plate Book
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
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