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Froissarts Cronycles
by FROISSART, Jean
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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East Woodstock, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1927. 2 volumes in 8 parts (volumes). Full blue leather, highly gilt decorated on front and rear covers and spine. 5 raised bands on each spine. Top edges gilt, deckle edges on front and bottom edges. Number 40 of 350 copies printed on hand made paper by Shakespeare Head Press, considered by many to be the press's most important work Decorated with hand colored maps, heraldic headpieces and tail pieces, and over 600 hand colored coats-of-arms drawn by Paul Woodrolfe. Near fine with very light shelf wear, and some darkening of spines.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40628
- Title
- Froissarts Cronycles
- Author
- FROISSART, Jean
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Shakespeare Head Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1927
- Weight
- 0.00
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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East Woodstock, Connecticut
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About Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA
For the past many years this firm has strived to provide a large, high quality, and diverse collection of mostly fiction published primarily before the Second World War and with their original dustjackets. Our specialties include Photoplay Editions, Mysteries, Fantasy Literature, Plays, Romances, Westerns, Hollywood Interest, and Business Fiction. We also have a large collection of Cocktail Recipe Books, Children's Literature and 19th Century Literature. We pride ourselves on providing accurately described, high grade, and difficult to locate titles in these fiction genres.
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- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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