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The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century, with Fifty Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
by Dobson, Austin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1892 Printed at the Chiswick Press, London. First Edition, 2nd impression. Hard cover, crown 8 vo., in publisher's original ruby red cloth with gilt pictorial decoration, beveled edged boards, 89 pp., No dust jacket present. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Condition: Very Good+ overall. The exterior looks Near Fine, with minimal rubbing or shelf wear, remaining bright and fresh. The Interior is about Very Good, with the usual light scattered foxing, affecting some plate margins, the tissue guard on frontispiece and to pastedowns. However, most pages are bright and binding is tight. A pictorial bookplate of an Oxford academic appears on the front pastedown. Literature: Francis Edwin Murray (1900) No. X, p14.. First Edition, 2nd Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good+.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8153
- Title
- The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century, with Fifty Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
- Author
- Dobson, Austin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- First Edition, 2nd Impression
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Dark and Stormy Night Books
Biblio member since 2005
Newburyport, Massachusetts
About Dark and Stormy Night Books
Now entering our eighteenth year, Dark and Stormy Night Books is an online bookstore carrying Rare, Antiquarian and other interesting finds. Alasdair and Alexandra Johnson, Proprietors. Alasdair, from Edinburgh, Scotland has a colorful heritage including the salvage of shipwrecks off the English coast, and transportation of an eighteenth-century revolutionary relative to Australia. When not swashbuckling through the world of electronics and other gizmos as a lad, he scared himself silly with science-fiction, ghost stories and gothic novels. His partner, Alexandra, is a third-generation book dealer, whose family had the smallest of small-press workshops in the family barn. She is a graduate in history and art history from Bowdoin College, with a particular interest in the Far East and the China trade, the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, and the British Arts & Crafts Movement. She also spent some years working for a nationally known early-American antiques dealer. They make their home in historic Newburyport, on the Massachusetts coast. Visit our website: www.darkandstormynightbooks.com
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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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
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