Some British Ballads [signed limited edition].
by Arthur Rackham [illustrator]:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Constable & co, no date [1919]. First edition, limited to 575 numbered copies (this is copy number 87), signed by Rackham on the limitation page. 4to (29cm by 23cm), 170pp. 16 colour plates, mounted on art card and protected by tissues. Original white vellum spine, parchment boards, gilt titling to the front boardand the spine, top edge gilt. There is some rubbing of the boards, some minor spotting of the preliminary pages, and a mnor scuffmark to the corner of one of the plates, but this is generally a bright good to very good copy overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77726
- Title
- Some British Ballads [signed limited edition].
- Author
- Arthur Rackham [illustrator]:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Constable & co, no date [1919].
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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....
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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