The Babees' Book; medieval manners for the young.
by Dr Furnivall, edited by Edith Rickert:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Privately Printed, Christmas 1913. First edition thus (hardback). 12mo (20cm by 13cm), 19pp. Frontispiece illustration (titled "Elizabeth Tingle Fairbanks"). Original white parchment spine, grey boards, title label to the spine. Boards rubbed and dusty, light inkstain to the rear board, a couple of crayon marks to page 15, gift inscription to the front free endpaper (which explains the origin of the inkstain on the rear board). Overall, this copy is in good condition. Limited to 250 copies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34908
- Title
- The Babees' Book; medieval manners for the young.
- Author
- Dr Furnivall, edited by Edith Rickert:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: Privately Printed, Christmas 1913.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
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- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...