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The Nursery Rhyme Book
by Lang, Andrew, ed
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Livingston, Montana, United States
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About This Item
Easton Press, 2014. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo (23.5 cm), pp. 288. Collector's edition. Full green leather with gilt titling and decorations, five raised bands, all edges gilt. Sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Illustrated endpapers. Housed in green cloth slipcase with gilt titling and decorations. Lavishly illustrated in black and white drawings by Leslie Brooke. A stunning reproduction of the 1897 original. [Baumgarten p. 126] No jacket, as issued. Light rubbing to slipcase. Lang (1844 - 1912) was a Scottish journalist, poet, Classical scholar and translator, literary historian, speculative antiquarian, and folklorist, highly regarded for his translations of Homer and Theocritus. "He carried his learning lightly, a perfected a vigorous, urbane, sensitive prose style." [Steinberg, S.H. Cassell's Encyclopedia of Literature, p. 1144]
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- Bookseller
- Elk River Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32690
- Title
- The Nursery Rhyme Book
- Author
- Lang, Andrew, ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Date Published
- 2014
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Elk River Books
Biblio member since 2010
Livingston, Montana
About Elk River Books
Elk River Books offers a curated selection of used and collectible books, specializing in outdoor literature, western history and authors from the Rocky Mountain West.
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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