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Atalanta in Calydon.: A Tragedy.
de SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles
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London, United Kingdom
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London: Edward Moxon & Co.,, 1865. Elegantly bound First edition of Swinburne's play, in a superb Birdsall binding. This famous and beautifully designed book was the subject of one of the bibliographic fraudster Thomas J. Wise's more easily disproved frauds - he held there to have been only 100 copies printed. Swinburne himself wrote of 300, prompting an American collector to assemble 101 copies to prove its falsehood. Quarto (214 x 169 mm). Finely bound by Birdsall of Northampton & London in blue-green crushed morocco, spine and front board lettered in gilt within decorative border of floral motifs in red, green, and orange morocco onlays on gilt pointillé background, single gilt rule frame to boards, turn-ins elegantly gilt with floral motifs on pointillé background in gilt to corners, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of one Richard Hughes to half-title, sometime washed; neat ink gift inscription dated 1930 from one Gilded Age New York society figure Bronson Winthrop to the New York wool merchant Blake Leigh Lawrence, on the first blank; red morocco gilt book label of noted US author and historian Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) to front pastedown. Spine sunned, neat repair to front joint, front free endpaper and half-title expertly reattached, offsetting to endpapers, a couple of nicks to brittle fore edge of book block, internally fresh; a very good attractive copy.
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- Librería
- Peter Harrington
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 149276
- Título
- Atalanta in Calydon.
- Autor
- SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- Lugar de publicación
- London: Edward Moxon & Co.,
- Fecha de publicación
- 1865
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Peter Harrington
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
London
Sobre Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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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...
- New
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- 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...
- Sunned
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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....
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
