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The Rise of Historical Criticism
de Wilde, Oscar
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Librería
-
Chico, California, United States
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[Hartford, Conn]: Privately Printed, 1905. Written in 1879 and submitted by Wilde to the Chancellor's English Essay Prize contest at Oxford. An interesting Wilde item - the manuscript in its entirenty was presumed to be lost. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition Thus, which was LIMITED to 225 copies (precedes the First Trade Edition). Marbled paper-covered boards with a green cloth spine; paper label titling on the spine. Clean text; 45 pages, deckle, with a Limitation Page at the end. Privately printed (by the Sherwood Press). Charming contemporary bookplate on the front paste-down that features an angel, cliffs, and ships at sea. Light rub to the margins. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. Limited. Hard Cover. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 005581
- Título
- The Rise of Historical Criticism
- Autor
- Wilde, Oscar
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good (Plus)
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket
- Edición
- Limited
- Editorial
- Privately Printed
- Lugar de publicación
- [Hartford, Conn]
- Fecha de publicación
- 1905
- Tamaño
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
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Quercus Rare Books
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Sobre el vendedor
Quercus Rare Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
Chico, California
Sobre Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
