Yesterdays With Authors.
by Fields, James T
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882. Finely bound illustrated edition of Fields' Yesterdays with Authors. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Tout with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, gilt decorative cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, watered silk doublures and endleaves, gilt topstain, extra illustrated with 61 rare plates including tissue-guarded frontispiece of Charles Dickens, and engraved portraits of Thackeray, Wordsworth, Hawthorne, Longfellow, and many others. In near fine condition. Bookplate. Fields' famed Yesterdays With Authors includes biographies and portraits of William Thackeray, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, and Nancy Mitford. with numerous additional portraits of Charles Kingsley, William Prescott, Robert Burns, and many others.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 122843
- Title
- Yesterdays With Authors.
- Author
- Fields, James T
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- James Fields Fine Binding, Tout Fine Binding, Yesterdays With Authors Fine Binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography and Autobiography;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Raptis Rare Books
Biblio member since 2012
Palm Beach, Florida
About Raptis Rare Books
Founded by Matthew and Adrienne Raptis, Raptis Rare Books is an antiquarian book firm that specializes in literature, children's books, economics, photo books, signed and inscribed books, and landmark books in all fields. Our business model is simple: we strive to handle books that are in exceptional condition and to provide exceptional customer service.
Glossary
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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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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...
- 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...