World-Noted Women; or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages. Illustrated with Seventeen Engravings on Steel, from Original Designs By Charles Staal
by CLARKE, MARY COWDEN
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- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1858. Full Gilt Decorated Leather. Very Good. Quarto. Pp. 407, plus 17 full-page engraved illustrations. Green leather with wide ornate gilt-tooled borders to both upper and lower covers, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Sympathetically rebacked, 5 raised bands, gilt-ruled spine and ornaments in the compartments, gilt-stamped leather spine label, corners invisibly mended. Overall, a very good, handsome copy. Front free blank and title-page contain the ink signature of A.R. Boswell (1838-1925), who served for one term (1883-85) as Mayor of Toronto, Ontario Canada, winning by only 5 votes! Included in this analytical disquisition are: Sappho, Lucretia, Aspasia, Cleopatra, St. Cecilia, Heloise, Laura, Valentine de Milan, Joan D'Arc, Margaret of Anjou, Isabella of Castile, Lady Jane Grey, Pocahontas, La Valliere, Maria Theresa, Catherine II, and Florence Nightingale.
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- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35785
- Title
- World-Noted Women; or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages. Illustrated with Seventeen Engravings on Steel, from Original Designs By Charles Staal
- Author
- CLARKE, MARY COWDEN
- Format/Binding
- Full Gilt Decorated Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- D. Appleton and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1858
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Spine Label
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- Spine
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- Rebacked
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- 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...
- Edges
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- Quarto
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