THE ENCHANTED DOLL: A Fairy Tale for Little People by Mark Lemon, Illustrated by Richard Doyle
- Bookseller: Jackson Wegren
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 001355
- Format: Hardcover
- Book condition: G
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alexander Moring the De La More Press
- Place: London
- Date published: 1903
Description
London: Alexander Moring the De La More Press, 1903. A good copy with wear to spine edges and corners, soil and toning to covers, offsetting to endpapers. Interior is clean and fresh without marks or foxing. Top edge gilt. without dust jacket. 74 pages with two-page illustrated frontis and full-page engraved illustrations by Richard Doyle, a 'Golden Age' illustrator better known for his paintings of fairies. An early printing of a scarce title. Covers are mylar-protected.. Hard Cover. G. Octavo.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
octavo : A book whose page size is approximately 12 inches by 9 inches. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been cut into eight pages.
top edge gilt : The top of the text block (the edges the pages that are visible when looking directly down at the top of a closed book) has been decorated with a gold-like finish.
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. Also known as the back.
endpapers : The first and last two pages (verso and recto) from the front and back of a book.
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