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THE BALLAD OF BEAU BROCADE and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century
by Dobson, Austin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1892. first thus. hardcover. Very good. Thomson, Hugh. With fifty illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Small octavo (approx. 5 1/8" wide by 7 5/8" tall) maroon cloth covers, bevelled edges, with elaborate gilt design on top cover and spine. Top edge gilt. 89 pages + colophon. Former owner bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. No dust jacket. Studio
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000021019
- Title
- THE BALLAD OF BEAU BROCADE and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century
- Author
- Dobson, Austin
- Illustrator
- Thomson, Hugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first thus
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Deerfield, Illinois
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Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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