In the Forest of Arden
by Mabie, Hamilton Wright; Low, Will H. (Illust.)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1906. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. "Winter after winter, before the study fire, we had made merry plans for this trip into the magical forest; we had discussed the best methods of travelling where no roads led; we had enjoyed in anticipation the surmises of our neighbours concering our unexplained absence, and the delightful mystery which would always linger about us when we had returned..." Escape, as famed figures from Shakespeare, Tolkien, and English legend and lore have done for centuries past, into the Forest of Arden through the lushly decorated pages of this 1906 fable. Follow the narrator and his fair Rosalind into the wood, where they befriend Nature and are forever changed by the timeless and ancient, sublime and subversive, utopian and earthly Forest of Arden, here beautifully presented not only in word, but in each page's decorative border and 4 plate illustrations by Will Hicok Low (1853-1932).
8 5/8" X 5 7/8". 124pp. Bound in sage green cloth over boards, with three towering oaks stamped in black over a bright gilt background, with acorn motif below, with oak leaves to spine, lettered in black. Mild wear to binding, with some rubbing to corners, light fraying to head and tail of spine, and faint dimming to spine. Hint of spine at center of text block; binding is sound. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper, and faint foxing to verso of frontispiece, else pages are clean and unmarked. Decorative border to every page. Illustrated in frontispiece and 3 plates by Will H. Low.
8 5/8" X 5 7/8". 124pp. Bound in sage green cloth over boards, with three towering oaks stamped in black over a bright gilt background, with acorn motif below, with oak leaves to spine, lettered in black. Mild wear to binding, with some rubbing to corners, light fraying to head and tail of spine, and faint dimming to spine. Hint of spine at center of text block; binding is sound. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper, and faint foxing to verso of frontispiece, else pages are clean and unmarked. Decorative border to every page. Illustrated in frontispiece and 3 plates by Will H. Low.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14867
- Title
- In the Forest of Arden
- Author
- Mabie, Hamilton Wright; Low, Will H. (Illust.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- april24drop giftable publishers cloth binding england united kingdom britain
Terms of Sale
Underground Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Glossary
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- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....