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THE PRINCESS: A MEDLEY
by TENNYSON, ALFRED
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Edward Moxon, 1860. All edges gilt. Covers and spine with elaborate gilt Victorian book designs. See photos. Panelled spine. Half-title. Twenty-six illustrations engraved on wood by Dalziel, Green, Thomas, and E. Williams from drawings by Daniel Maclise. General mild to moderate foxing throughout, frequently peripheral. Heavier foxing on some early and late pages. Pleasing typography with wide margins. Binding tag of Leighton and Son, Hodge on rear pastedown. A very good example of fine Victorian book cover design. 188pp.. First Edition. Full Emerald Green Morocco. Light Edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Illus. by Maclise. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014083
- Title
- THE PRINCESS: A MEDLEY
- Author
- TENNYSON, ALFRED
- Illustrator
- Maclise
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Moxon
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- English Literature, Poetry, Fine Binding
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- First Edition
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