Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East
by GOLDSMITH, Oliver
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, 1904. Hardcover. Introduction by Richard Garnett. Illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan. 12mo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, decorations and pictorial stamping. xxiv, 309pp. Top edge gilt. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous small line drawings. Very good. Faintest of mild edgewear, else internally tight and near fine. A superb early edition of this 1904 illustrated edition of Goldsmith's 1760 letters supposedly written by Lien Chi, a Chinese traveller in England. A lovely copy with gleaming gilt.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43334
- Title
- Letters from a Citizen of the World to His Friends in the East
- Author
- GOLDSMITH, Oliver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Wells Gardner, Darton & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; British Literature;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Galena, Illinois
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...