Little Brother & Little Sister and other tales.
by RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrates). The Brothers Grimm
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Constable, London., 1917. First edition: one of 525 copies signed by the illustrator. Quarto. pp xii, 251. Thirteen tipped-in colour plates, as well as many other illustrations. Grey cloth with gilt-decorated buckram title-label to front. Top edge gilt. Lacks, as so often, the envelope containing a separate plate.Free endpapers tanned. Dent to top edge of front cover. Covers a bit rubbed at the edges. Very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RACKHAMA025802
- Title
- Little Brother & Little Sister and other tales.
- Author
- RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrates). The Brothers Grimm
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Constable, London.
- Date Published
- 1917
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...