Volpone: or The Foxe
by Jonson, Ben; O'Sullivan, Vincent (essay)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
New York: John Lane Company, 1898. Cloth Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket/No Dustjacket. Illustrated by Beardsley, Aubrey. Pages bright and clean except for a few small handling prints to the initial leaves, toning at the endpapers, and a touch of dust staining along the head edges; binding square and secure, full blue cloth turned inward at corners and spine ends with some small spots of fraying just starting, some light rubbing along spine sides and edges, a few faint droplet stains in the gilding on the front and light spots of surface rubbing on the rear, otherwise beautifully kept. xlv, 193pp. Numbered 211 of 1000 copies on Art Paper (an additional 100 copies were prepared on Imperial Japanese Vellum and included an extra set of large photogravure reproductions of the frontis and capitals; Beardsley also designed the front cover and had intended to illustrate the text with additional drawings but untimely passed).; 4to.
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- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 069703
- Title
- Volpone: or The Foxe
- Author
- Jonson, Ben; O'Sullivan, Vincent (essay)
- Illustrator
- Illustrated by Beardsley, Aubrey
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Lane Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1898
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
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Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
The Haunted Bookshop is an open shop with over 40,000 quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian titles for students, scholars, collectors, artists, families and children. The store has been in business for over 35 years, now in a historic home near downtown Iowa City. Our open hours are 10-8 daily.
Glossary
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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. ...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....