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The Children's Shakespeare Being Stories from the Plays with Illustrative Passages
by HOFFMAN, Alice Spencer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
J M Dent & Sons Ltd., 1911. 1st Edition. Hardcover. VG. FOLKARD, Charles. 1st Edition. 16 x 23.5 cm pictorial cloth with gilt stamped titles to the front and spine and publisher's device to the rear. Top edge gilt, other edges green, pictorial endpapers, viii, 472pp with 21 full page colour illustrations including tissue-guarded frontispiece together with black and white headers and footers. There is a small 1cm split in the cloth on the front joint and a little rubbing and pushing to the corners and spine tips. There is also some rubbing to the images and decoration on the front and spine and a little cockling to the bottom edge of the front and rear board. Internally, there is a gift inscription in pencil dated 1912 on the recto of the frontispiece. All illustrations are present and in excellent condition. There are only occasional light marks, one poorly opened page and occasional pushing to the bottom corners of some pages. An unusual 1st Edition of this charmingly illustrated collection of Shakespeare's tales. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201939
- Title
- The Children's Shakespeare Being Stories from the Plays with Illustrative Passages
- Author
- HOFFMAN, Alice Spencer
- Illustrator
- FOLKARD, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- J M Dent & Sons Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Illustrated|Fairy|Shakespeare|Childrens
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About the Seller
Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
About Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Rainford & Parris Books is a small family business based on the Hertfordshire / Essex border, close to London Stansted Airport. We are full time professional bookdealers specialising mainly in Modern First Editions, Children's Books, Illustrated Books and Nineteenth Century Literature, as well as assorted fine and interesting books. When describing our books we attempt to list all significant defects to a high degree of precision, so that you can build an accurate idea of their condition. We supplement our description with images and are always happy to provide further images or information. All books are very carefully packaged in a new book-box so that they reach you in the condition described.
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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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- 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...
- 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....
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