THE POETIC ALBUM: CONTAINING THE POEMS OF ALFRED TENNYSON, MRS. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, AND ALEXANDER SMITH
by Hazard, Willis P
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- Slight cover bowing due to the rebacking, retaining original back strip. Contents clean
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Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1854. Slight cover bowing due to the rebacking, retaining original back strip. Contents clean. viii, 9-3356p. "With Eight Illustrations By The Best Artists". The plates are full-page with accomplished hand coloring. Plates not figured in the pagination. Bound in publisher's full maroon morocco over beveled boards, gilt spine title with simple panel ornaments in blind, the covers embossed with a series of decorative frames, marbled endpapers. Unusually good hand coloring for this genre.
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- Title
- THE POETIC ALBUM: CONTAINING THE POEMS OF ALFRED TENNYSON, MRS. ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING, AND ALEXANDER SMITH
- Author
- Hazard, Willis P
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight cover bowing due to the rebacking, retaining original back strip. Contents clean
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Willis P. Hazard
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1854
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...