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ALMANACK FOR 1885.
by GREENAWAY, Kate.:
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Routledge, 1885.. FIRST EDITION 1885, DELUXE BINDING, 102 x 76 mm, 4 x 3 inches, original publisher's cream fake morocco, triple gilt ruled border and gilt lettering to upper cover, blind ruled border to lower cover, all edges gilt, bright yellow endpapers, (24) pages. Coloured frontispiece, title vignette and 12 large coloured illustrations in the text for the months, plus 4 full page coloured illustrations of little girls, one for each season, followed by 2 pages each with a coloured illustration of a young woman and a toddler with a 4 line verse below. Hair-line vertical surface crack to both covers next to spine, no inscriptions, light browning to half-title and final page naming the printer, faintest offsetting from coloured illustrations onto a few pages. Otherwise a near Fine clean crisp copy. The third Almanack in the series, Schuster 5, 3c. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47141
- Title
- ALMANACK FOR 1885.
- Author
- GREENAWAY, Kate.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- London, Routledge, 1885.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- almanac almanack Kate Greenaway children's illustrated
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
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- First Edition
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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...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- 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...
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