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Tales from Shakespeare With twelve illustrations in permanent photography from the Boydell Gallery.
by CHARLES AND MARY LAMB
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bickers and Son, London, 1877. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition Thus. Printed at the Chiswick Press. 8vo. 386pp. A handsome contemporary binding for Trent Collage in full blue calf with raised bands and gilt lettering, rules and tooling. With handsome marbled edges and endpapers. Trent College motif gold-stamped to the upper board, and with the remnants of their library plate to the front pastedown. The calf lightly marked in one or two places, with a touch of rubbing to the corner tips, and a little wear and splitting to the extremities of the outer hinges. A touch of very light spotting and soiling to a dozen preliminary leaves. A very good copy of this series of prose summaries of twenty Shakespeare plays (Charles Lamb mostly contributing the tragedies whilst his sister focuses on the comedies), splendidly enhanced with a dozen beautifully reproduced artworks inspired by the plays, each pasted to considerably thicker paperstock..
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- Bookseller
- Clearwater Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BC18574
- Title
- Tales from Shakespeare With twelve illustrations in permanent photography from the Boydell Gallery.
- Author
- CHARLES AND MARY LAMB
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Bickers and Son, London
- Date Published
- 1877
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- First Edition
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- Leaves
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Gilt
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