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WILLIAM MORRIS TO WHISTLER. Papers and Addresses on Art and Craft and the Commonweal. With Illustrations from drawings by the Author & other sources
by CRANE. WALTER
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
G. Bell & Sons. Ltd. London. 1911. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.5 inches). x, 278pp, 2 (advert leaf). Red and black decorative title page, portrait of William Morris, from a photo by Emery Walker, and 54 mono illustrations, including some drawings by Crane. Publishers blue cloth with decoration and lettering in white to both boards and spine. Small dent to the bottom of the rear board. Some minor foxing to the fore edges but this is a lovely clean and unread copy, with some page gatherings still unopened. In the rare original fawn paper dustwrapper which reproduces the designs and lettering on the book in red. Publishers adverts on the Inner flaps. Some darkening to the spine and chipping to the edges but overall a very good example and rare thus.
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- Bookseller
- Paul Foster Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10327
- Title
- WILLIAM MORRIS TO WHISTLER. Papers and Addresses on Art and Craft and the Commonweal. With Illustrations from drawings by the Author & other sources
- Author
- CRANE. WALTER
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G. Bell & Sons. Ltd. London. 1911
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's and Illustrated books;
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- Flap(s)
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- First Edition
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- 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....
- Gatherings
- A term used in bookbinding, where a gathering of sheets is folded at the middle, then bound into the binding together. The...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
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- Edges
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