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The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance
by Anstey, F. [Guthrie, Thomas Anstey]
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bristol: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1885. [2], 192pp. Rebound in later half-morocco and marbled paper over boards, raised bands, spines in five panels, flower device to first and fifth panels, title to second, author to fourth, with repeated flower head pattern to larger third panel, date to foot, t.e.g., marbled endpapers. Slightly rubbed to extremities, internally lightly browned with occasional light foxing to margins and fore-edge of text block. Previous owner's book plate to front pastedowns. Bound without the adverts, making the issue number impossible to ascertain, so possibly a later impression. Turner 4, 4a, 4b or 4c, but no later; Wolff 167, Sadleir 53; Locke, Spectrum 3:11. First Edition. Half Morocco and Boards. Good+. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Temple Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001241
- Title
- The Tinted Venus - A Farcical Romance
- Author
- Anstey, F. [Guthrie, Thomas Anstey]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J.W. Arrowsmith
- Place of Publication
- Bristol
- Date Published
- 1885
- Keywords
- Anstey
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Temple Rare Books
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Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Temple Rare Books
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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