Lalla Rookh
by MOORE, Thomas, illustrated by John Tenniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York. Hurd and Houghton. 1867. Hardcover. 16mo. 16cm, 332p., title page vignette, 5 engraved plates, head & tail decorations, in full contemporary black Russia, gilt decorated raised bands, full gilt decorations in the panels, gilt ruled panels on the bevelled boards, gilt decorated inner dentelles, gilt roll decoration on the board edges, all edges gilt, french marbled endpapers, front free fly fixed to verso of frontis, lacking the rear free fly endpaper, very good condition, attractively bound (ilhmds). ~ A finely bound American edition of Thomas Moore's oriental romance first published in 1817. English artist and Punch cartoonist, famous for his illustrations of Alice in Wonderland', John Tenniel illustrated "Lalla Rookh" first in 1861. With Thomas Moore's Preface written originally for the collected edition of Moore's works.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC) (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35956
- Title
- Lalla Rookh
- Author
- MOORE, Thomas, illustrated by John Tenniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York. Hurd and Houghton. 1867
- Keywords
- ORIENTAL ROMANCE IRELAND IRISH AUTHOR MOORE ILLUSTRATED TENNIEL FINE BINDING
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...