Questions at Issue.
by GOSSE, Edmund
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Heinemann, London., 1893. First edition. Octavo. pp [xvi], 333, 16 adverts. Original salmon pink buckram covers lettered in gilt and with bevelled edges. Top edge gilt. Essays on Shelley, Symbolism and Stéphane Mallarmé, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Tennyson, etc. Armorial bookplate (H. Lewis Doulton of the pottery family) on front pastedown. Spine and cover edges a little faded. Endpapers tanned and spotted. Very good indeed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GOSSEEDM024741
- Title
- Questions at Issue.
- Author
- GOSSE, Edmund
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann, London.
- Date Published
- 1893
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About the Seller
Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
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Glossary
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...