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The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century, by Austin Dobson, with Fifty Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
by Dobson, Austin
- Used
- very good
- 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 Hard cover, Crown 8vo., in publisher's original "electric blue" cloth with gilt pictorial decoration, 89 pp., No dust jacket present. All edges gilt. Printed at the Chiswick Press, London. **CONDITION: Very Good overall. The exterior maintains a very pleasant feel, with the extensive gilt design remaining bright. Spine slightly darkened, with head and tail pressed. Very light shelf wear to corners and edges. The Interior with light scattered foxing, affecting some plate margins. Tissue guard on frontispiece lacking. Most pages are bright. Both hinges slightly cracked but holding firm. Gift inscription in old ink from Christmas 1892 on half-title. Pictorial bookplate front pastedown of an Oxford academic. **This would have been an early display of the illustrator Hugh Thomson's "Cranford School" of lavishly gilt, gift book design, beginning with MacMillan's reissue of Mrs. Gaskell's "Cranford" the year prior. Literature: Francis Edwin Murray (1900) p.13, No. X.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good .
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8202
- Title
- The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIII Century, by Austin Dobson, with Fifty Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
- Author
- Dobson, Austin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.,Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
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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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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cracked
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