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All Round the Clock
by Mack, Robert Ellice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Carmarthen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London / New York: Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton and Co. Good with no dust jacket. 1890. Presumed First Edition. Hardcover. No date, but circa 1890/1902 ? A Lovely Ernest Nister published childrens book in poetic form, illustrated with both monotone illustrations and beautiful chromolithographs. Lacks rear free endpaper. In Pictorial paper-covered boards, covers a little worn with scratches mainly to the plain rear cover. The corners and edges rubbed, and the head/tail of spine bumped with a little hole to the very foot of the red cloth spine. Internally there is a tiny booksellers label (Wm. Whiteley, Westbourne Grove) to the bottom inner corner of the front pastedown. Decorative endpapers. Inner paper gutters slightly splitting /browning. The page fore-edges and the paper is tanning/browning with age. Unpaginated. Every page has little, or larger sepia illustrations to the text, by Harriett M. Bennett. Illustrated with full page plates = 22 f/p chromolithographs and a couple in sepia, plus the Title page is illustrated in full colour, as is one of the poetry pages. Overall a Good copy of a Charming early publication for children, printed by Ernest NISTER in Bavaria - known for beautiful colour printing. See Images ; Small 4to 9" - 10" tall .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 108057
- Title
- All Round the Clock
- Author
- Mack, Robert Ellice
- Illustrator
- Bennett H. M.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition
- Publisher
- Ernest Nister / E. P. Dutton and Co
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Short Story, Literature, Childrens Books, Fiction, Fantasy, Poetry, Verse, Poem
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated; Victorian Fiction; Poetry/War Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
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About the Seller
Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Biblio member since 2006
Carmarthen
About Sue Lloyd-Davies Books
Retired Member of the P.B.F.A, and the WBA. In business for 42+ years to date, mainly working from home nowadays, and formerly exhibiting at Major London Book Fairs, and some Provincial ones within reach of the M4! View by Appointment ONLY Please, as I may be unavailable on the day you call. Happy to see customers but they have to be able to squeeze through the book aisles/piles! Unfortunately no wheelchair access. Currently only working part-time.
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