Autumnal Leaves
by Heath, Francis George
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: The Imperial Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1899. Hardcover. 1/4" tear to cloth at head of spine. Moderate fading and rubbing to spine and edges of boards. Rear hinge just starting.; Inscribed by the author on half-title page: "Arthur [?] Esq. MA [?] with the compliments & esteem of Francis Geo Heath". Stated "Fourth Edition". [6], xvi, [3], 20-352 pages + 32 pages advertisements + 12 colour plates (including frontis) + 4 b&w full page plates (within the pagination) + 14 b&w vignette illustrations + 12 initial-letter leaf engravings. Red cloth boards with leaf illustrations on spine and front board. Gilt lettering on spine and front board. Black endpapers. Page dimensions: 194 135mm. The preliminaries include a 7 page "Advertisement to the New Edition" with numerous quotations from press reviews.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6141
- Title
- Autumnal Leaves
- Author
- Heath, Francis George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Imperial Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1899
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About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- New
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- Cloth
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- 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....
- Edges
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