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NAPOLEON ET SON FILS Limited Edition
by FREDERIC MASSON
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
PARIS: GOUPIL & Cie / MANZI, JOYANT , 1904 Burgundy Buckram Cloth Boards with Gilt titles to spine and front board, 330 x 265 mm approx.Top Edge gilt others deckle edge. [ii] + 294 pp.Text in French.Colour Portrait Frontis with captioned tissue guard + 52 other illustrations all as called for. No 310 of a Limited Edition of 800 copies.1904 First Printing Thus. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. VG (Book- Mild shelf wear, liquid splash marks and sun fade to spine, top margin of front board also unevenly faded, previous owner book plate to front paste down - Adolphus William Ward late Master of Peterhouse Cambridge and later same family (Maternal side) Sir John and Lady Barnes bookplate to free front end paper (Late British Ambassador to The Netherlands and previously Israel) Mild to moderate foxing to prelims and end papers and occasionally to margins. Tissue guards tanned, a little dust ingression to fore edge of deckled pages. Loosely laid in at rear are three earlier subject related Steel Engravings - Marie Louise,Napoleon I & Francois Joseph Charles Napoleon which are browned and foxed and have the remnants of backing boards to reverse.Binding sound with no other notable defects). NB The size and quality paper of the book block make for a very heavy tome and we may need to seek additional postage for overseas shipping.
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127987
- Title
- NAPOLEON ET SON FILS Limited Edition
- Author
- FREDERIC MASSON
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- GOUPIL & Cie / MANZI, JOYANT
- Place of Publication
- PARIS
- Date Published
- 1904
- Keywords
- Napoleon et Son Fils, Frederic Masson, 1904 Limited Editions, Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie Louise, Francois Joseph Charles Napoleon, French History, Biographies,
Terms of Sale
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Deckle edge
- Deckle edge is the feathered edge of a page. Traditionally and historically, this was a side effect of the process of making...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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....
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