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Fables for the Female Sex
by [MOORE, Edward and H. BROOKE]
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: T. Davies and J. Dodsley, 1771. Hardcover. Very Good. London, T. Davies and J. Dodsley, 1771 [fourth edition]/ 1744. Octavo, viii, 173 pages with a title-page vignette plus 17 full-page engravings (after drawings by Francis Hayman). Contemporary full calf slightly blemished and a little rubbed and bumped; front cover slightly buckled; spine a little cracked with slight loss at the head and near the foot; early ownership details; margins of the endpapers and the first and last few leaves a little discoloured by the leather; hand-drawn armorial bookplate inexpertly removed from the front pastedown (and then mounted upside down on the rear one!); rear free endpaper excised, with slight worming to the pastedown and the margin of the last two leaves; two plates (detached at one stage) slightly frayed and sunned along the top edge; overall a very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69682
- Title
- Fables for the Female Sex
- Author
- [MOORE, Edward and H. BROOKE]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T. Davies and J. Dodsley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1771
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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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