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The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. With Drawings by C.E. Brock
de FARNOL, Jeffery (1878-1952), [BROCK, C.E., illustrator]
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London: Sampson Low, 1916. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.xiv; 600. With 21 colour halftone illustrations with captioned tissue-guards, including a frontispiece. Also with a title-page vignette. Red publisher's cloth, gilt pictorial designs and titles to upper board and spine, small onlay illustration to upper. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed. Lightly foxed throughout, some toning and minor bubbling to endpapers. Faded ownership inscription to flyleaf. Some dulling to t.e.g. Faint black marks to upper board. Sunning to spine and portion of lower. Mild bumping to extremities. Very good. A comedic Regency plot wherein boxer Barnabas Barty comes into a fortune of £700,000 and decides to use the money as a start-up fund for his new aristocratic life (to the chagrin of his father). Later turned into a film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
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- The Amateur Gentleman. A Romance. With Drawings by C.E. Brock
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- FARNOL, Jeffery (1878-1952), [BROCK, C.E., illustrator]
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- London: Sampson Low, 1916
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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"...
- 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...
- Publisher's cloth
- A hardcover book comprised of cloth over hard pasteboard boards. ...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
