ONE HUNDRED FABLES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
de NORTHCOTE, JAMES
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Moderate General Cover Wear/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
London: Geo. Lawford, Savile Passage, 1829. Rebacked with new paper spine label. Covers sunned, rubbed. Original yellow endpapers. Portrait frontispiece. Title-page in black and red letters, with vignette. This book of fables is embellished with 280 wood engravings. The illustrations were first devised by the author, then drawn by William Harvey, and finally engraved on wood by John Johnson, of the Apollo Press. Each of the 100 fables has an engraving at the head and foot, with an ornamental first letter of the fable. Index of the engravings is found at the end of the text. Occasional light foxing is noted, heaviest on the frontispiece. A pleasing example of an early 19th-century English illustrated book of fables. 272pp.. Second Edition. Salmon Cloth. Moderate General Cover Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
Reseñas
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 000651
- Título
- ONE HUNDRED FABLES, ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
- Autor
- NORTHCOTE, JAMES
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Moderate General Cover Wear
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- Second Edition
- Editorial
- Geo. Lawford, Savile Passage
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1829
- Tamaño
- Octavo
- Palabras clave
- Illustrated, Wood Engravings, fablesE
Términos de venta
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
Sobre el vendedor
Glenn Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
Sobre Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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"...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
