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A Guide to The Study of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris)
by Warren, John Byrne Leicester (Lord de Tabley)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Manchester: Sherratt and Hughes. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Light foxing. A nice copy of this title.; With a handwritten note from the author's sister on letterhead paper "Tabley House, Knutsford" pasted to front endpaper. The notes reads: "To Rev. W. Truss from the writer's sister Shaun Leighton-Warren July 18 1901". [1-2 (recto: Press Notices on the First Edition; verso: blank)] (viii), 228 pages + frontispiece. 15 plates within the pagination. Brown cloth boards with printed title label on spine. Page dimensions: 225 x 140mm. Contents: Introduction; Phrases of Book Possession; Leading Styles of English Book-Plates. The Jacobean Style; The Chippendale Style; Allegoric Book-Plates; The Landscape on English Book-Plates; English Dated Book-Plates. Seventeenth Century; English Dated Book-Plates. Eighteenth Century; Mottoes Directed Against Borrowers; Book-Plates of Historic Interest; Mottoes Concerning Books or In Praise of Study; Engravers of Foreign Book-Plates; Tabulated List of Foreign Engravers; Engravers of English Book-Plates. First Period; Tabulated List of English Engravers. (First Period); Engravers of English Book-Plates. Second Period; Tabulated List of English Engravers. (Second Period); Foreign Dated Book-Plates; A List of Foreign Dated Book-Plates Anterior to 1700; Conclusion. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24238
- Title
- A Guide to The Study of Book-Plates (Ex-Libris)
- Author
- Warren, John Byrne Leicester (Lord de Tabley)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Sherratt and Hughes
- Place of Publication
- Manchester
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Bibliography
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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