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Select Poems Of Thomas Hood. With Illustrations by Gustave Dore.
by HOOD, Thomas, 1799-1845 / DORE, Gustave 1832-1883.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Sudbury, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, [ c. 1891 ] .. A very good original Victorian binding. 13.50" x 9.75" x 0.5". [4pp.]/pp.68 plus 6 full-page engravings. Blue cloth coverd boards, with gilt titles and decoration to the front board. Just a couple of small bumps and blemishes, corners carefully strengthened, and gilt rubbed. Original brown endpapers. Six steel-engraved plates. Plate before "The Haunted House" carefully trimmed and laid-down to matching card. All plates drawn by Gustave Dor� engraved by: J. Godfrey; Lumb Stocks A.R.A.; J. Sadler; W. Ridgway; J. Godfrey; and G. C. Finden. Light foxing to margins of all of the engravings. Clear English text on lightly toned paper, with a few brown spots and blemishes. VG. ** Date of publication assumed after 1891: "In 1891, James Bowden came in to a three-way partnership. He had started working at Ward and Lock in 1869 and after he became a partner, the company became Ward, Lock and Bowden. "By the last decade on the 19th century, Messrs. Ward, Lock and Bowden were an important name on the publishing scene." - See Liveing, Edward George Downing (1954). Adventure in publishing; the House of Ward Lock, 1854-1954. London: Ward, Lock. p. 57.
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- Bookseller
- Chilton Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50601
- Title
- Select Poems Of Thomas Hood. With Illustrations by Gustave Dore.
- Author
- HOOD, Thomas, 1799-1845 / DORE, Gustave 1832-1883.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co., Warwick House, Salisbury Square, [ c. 1891 ] .
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 52075 Alfred Tennyson Baron Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co. elaine poetry dore illustrated 0
- Bookseller catalogs
- POETRY / 19TH CENTURY;
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About the Seller
Chilton Books
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Sudbury, Suffolk
About Chilton Books
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- VG
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- Cloth
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- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- G
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