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The Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald
de FitzGerald, Edward
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London: MacMillan and Co. Limited, 1903. Octavo. Bound in 7 volumes. Half red morocco and marbled paper boards. Matching leather corners. Matching endpapers. Wonderful, gilt, arts and craft floral design on the spine along with title and date. Previous owners initials embossed on front board in gilt. Top edge gilt. Fore edge untrimmed. Very slight wear and abrasion on a couple of the bindings. One volume with several small indentations on the back edge of the boards. A couple of volumes with a small sections showing old mild tide lines otherwise the volumes are very clean and crisp. The set extra illustrated with water colours and separately illustrated prints. A very attractive and rare set. There seem to have been a number of editions issued in the 1902/03 period with this edition being the nicest. This being copy 6 of 20 numbered and registered copies. Each volume is separately numbered at the front and signed by the binder, Jackel and Co. NY. Each volume has a hand coloured frontispiece and a number of other high quality illustrations. Upon the death of FitzGerald in 1883, the editor recovered many of FitzGerald's writings to produce a possible publication. The author reprints here many of the letters FitzGerald wrote to friends and colleagues over many of the years of his life. A beautiful set by the author of the first and best-known English translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 1903
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- The Letters and Literary Remains of Edward FitzGerald
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- FitzGerald, Edward
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- MacMillan and Co. Limited
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- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1903
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
