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Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. A New Translation by MRS. EDGAR LUCAS. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
by (RACKHAM, ARTHUR): BROTHERS GRIMM:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Archibald Constable & Co., 1900 Early edition. Hardback, 8 x 6 inches. In cream cloth with colour printed illustrations to boards and spine. Top page edges gilt. Pictorial endpapers. In good condition. Some handling marks, boards lightly tanned; corners slightly bumped with rubbing and small nicks to ends of spine. Minor neat glue repair to partial crack on rear spine edge. Some tanning to illustrated endpapers, some foxing spots to prelims. Mild foxing and to pages throughout with some handling marks, page edges rough/uncut. Small tear head of spine. Tear inner edge (2 inch) on first contents page, & also small tear lower insde corner of last list of illustrations page. Binding tight and sound. Else a good clean and tight copy. Scarce. 464pp. Illustrated with a colour frontis plate and decorative title page, and many B&W illustrations (full-page and in-text) by Arthur Rackham.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94802
- Title
- Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. A New Translation by MRS. EDGAR LUCAS. With Illustrations by Arthur Rackham.
- Author
- (RACKHAM, ARTHUR): BROTHERS GRIMM:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Archibald Constable & Co., 1900 Early edition
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, RACKHAM, ARTHUR, A New Translation, MRS. EDGAR LUCAS, Illustrated, colour frontis plate, B&W illustrations,
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
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