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The Writings of Mrs. Humphry Ward
by Ward, Mrs. Humphry
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About This Item
Boston; 1909-1912: Houghton Mifflin Co. Limited Edition. Octavo. In 16 volumes. The Autograph Edition limited to only 750 sets signed and numbered. The present set is not signed but does contain four manuscript pages within four volumes written on rectos only with corrections. Mrs. Ward's first book Robert Elsmere was a huge success. She had become so popular in England and America that several of her works were done in a limited edition. This is the first collected and only uniform edition of the author's novels. New introductions by the author were done especially for this set. Illustrated with photogravures. Frontispieces beautifully done in color, a few in brown and all others in black and white, all printed on Japan paper. Some of the illustrations are from original drawings by Albert Sterner, Charles E. Brock and Archibald S. Hartrick and with several portraits of Mrs. Ward not previously published. A handsome set bound by the Riverside Press in 3/4 brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards with matching endpapers, raised bands with compartments fully lettered and decorated in gilt, silk ribbon markers. Some light speckling to top edges, a few light scratches to a few volumes.
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Details
- book dealer
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Bookseller’s Inventory #
- 021244
- Title
- The Writings of Mrs. Humphry Ward
- Author
- Ward, Mrs. Humphry
- Book condition
- second hand
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston; 1909-1912
- Keywords
- Manuscript Limited Edition Womens Voting Womens Right Suffrage WWI World War 1
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Women;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Glossary
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- 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... [more]
- 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... [more]
- marbled paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or... [more]
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"... [more]
- octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing... [more]
- 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... [more]
- Uniform Edition
- A collection or series of individual volumes of an author's work bound to match with a uniform size and style. Especially common... [more]
- 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... [more]
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