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SUN-DIALS AND ROSES OF YESTERDAY
by EARLE, ALICE MORSE
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, London: The Macmillan Company, 1903. Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Gilt sun-dial front cover. Top edge gilt. Silk book-mark. "Garden delights which are here displayed in a very truth and are moreover regarded as emblems". This large paper edition was limited to 100 copies, this being #66. Replete with text illustrations. Twenty full-page photogravures with captioned tissue-guards. Quite a fine edition. The vellum is a bit soiled, slight wrinkle at head of spine. Small pleasant armorial book-plate front pastedown. 461pp. . Limited Edition. 1/4 Vellum. Moderate Corner and Edge Wear/No Jacket. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014197
- Title
- SUN-DIALS AND ROSES OF YESTERDAY
- Author
- EARLE, ALICE MORSE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Keywords
- Sundials, Sun-Dials, Roses
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.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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