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London: Cassell & Co., LTD, 1935. Hardcover. Fine. Milton By Hilaire Belloc. London [:] Cassell and Company LTD 1935 8 vo. , 316pp, Full blue morocco, with gilt strap-work enclosing laid-in to the upper cover, a miniature watercolour portrait of Milton on vellum, glazed with 2 gilt rules encircling it, spine tooled to match covers with gilt decorsted raised bands, wide morocco turn-ins with gilt corner pieces, all edges gilt by Bayntun (Riviere), blue marble endpapers. Title page, tissued portrait frontis, half title, 11 extra-illustrations in text-3 are tinted, binding tight. book plate inner fly. Case is blue fold-over cloth with velvet lining. In fine condition..
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- Bookseller
- Reagan's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 290
- Title
- Milton
- Author
- Hilaire Belloc
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cassell & Co., LTD
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Illustrated, Fine Leather Binding, Conway Style Binding, Extra Illustrated, Scarce, Bound by Bayntun Riviere
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About the Seller
Reagan's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2018
Moseley, Virginia
About Reagan's Rare Books
Reagan's Rare Books specializes in fine bindings and leather bound books dating primarily from the 18th century to early 20th century in a wide range of subject matter such as History, Americana, and Literature.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...
- 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...
- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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