Marmion. A Tale of Flodden Field.: >>EARLY MINIATURE PAPERBACK BOOK<<
by Scott, Sir Walter
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
[8], 302 printed pages, plus correction page at end. Printed by Simms and McIntyre, Belfast. Simms and McIntyre Pocket edition, priced sixpence. Individually issued volume (two years later, Simms & McIntyre published, The Select Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott ; Lay of the Last Minstrel, Marmion, Lady of the Lake, and Rokeby). Page edges a little dusty. Otherwise, in unusually good condition. Original endpapers. No inscriptions. 66 x 100mm. Original publisher's pink wrappers; spine with pink title against brown decorative frame; front cover with pink and brown lettering within brown rococco frame; back cover with pink and brown publisher's advertisement within elaborate pink and brown frame. Spine with vertical wrinkles; some slight wear at head and foot of spine, edges and corners. Overall a few patches of grubbiness. The early 19th century saw numerous improvements in the printing, publishing and book-distribution processes, with the introduction of steam-powered printing presses, pulp mills, automatic type setting, and a network of railways. These innovations enabled the likes of Simms and McIntyre of Belfast, Routledge & Sons (founded in 1836) and Ward & Lock (founded in 1854) to mass-produce cheap uniform yellowback or paperback editions of existing works, and distribute and sell them across the British Isles, principally via the ubiquitous W. H. Smith & Sons newsagent found at most urban British railway stations. These paper bound volumes were offered for sale at a fraction of the historical cost of a book, and were of a smaller format, (usually 110 mm × 178 mm.), aimed at the railway traveller. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann, nor Welsh. No OCLC number. WorldCat locates zero copies worldwide. Rare and very early mass-produced paperback in miniature. #5445
Synopsis
Published in 1808, Marmion was a popular poem by Sir Walter Scott.
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- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5445
- Title
- Marmion. A Tale of Flodden Field.
- Author
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Simms and McIntyre,
- Place of Publication
- Aldine Chambers, Paternoster Row and Donegall Street. London & Belfast.
- Date Published
- 1847
- Pages
- [8], 302 printed pages,
- Size
- 66 x 100mm.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- paperback, PRINTING , Print , Poetry, Minuscule , MINITURE BOOKS, Miniature Books, Miniature Book, Miniature, MINIATUR-AUSGABE, MINI-LIVRES, Livre Minuscule, LITERATURE, Literary Classics, Literary,
Terms of Sale
Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
About the Seller
Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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