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Life in Paris; Comprising the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, and His Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton [Etc.]
by Carey, David
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: John Fairburn, 1822. xxiv, 489pp, [3], plates. Original boards, original paper label to spine, untrimmed. Rebacked (almost invisibly), with old label laid down. Label slightly chipped, boards rubbed, corners and edges bumped, front inner joint with paper repair, internally quite bright and clean, complete with the half-title and the 'To the Binders' leaf at the rear. With a hand-coloured frontispiece and twenty hand-coloured engravings by George Cruikshank. First edition, first issue, large-paper copy, the Albert M. Cohn copy with his bookplate and an initialled typed note to front pastedown, now housed in a cloth chemise and a full morocco pull off top box by Riviere, with raised bands and gilt to spine and sides, which is slightly rubbed and darkened to extremities. According to Cohn's note, "This copy is one of the very few that were first bound up in this manner by the publishers from the parts. It contains the very rare unnumbered leaf 'To the Binder' at the end. The volume was afterwards issued in picture boards, but this state is even rarer. AMC". Abbey Travel 112; Tooley 129 and Cohn 109. First Edition. Original Boards. Good+. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001000
- Title
- Life in Paris; Comprising the Rambles, Sprees and Amours of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, and His Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton [Etc.]
- Author
- Carey, David
- Illustrator
- Cruikshank, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Fairburn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1822
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Original Boards, Colour Plate, Cruikshank, Cohn, Ebay
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
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30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
Biblio member since 2012
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Temple Rare Books
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- Raised Band(s)
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- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Edges
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rebacked
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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