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Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
by Jonathon Swift; Arthur Rackham
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909. Hardcover. Good. Arthur Rackham. First printing thus in the fetching red variant cloth covers. A new edition after the 1899 version, featuring 12 revised illustrations by Rackham now done in colour. Tissue guarded frontispiece. Elaborate gilt decoration to cover. Top edge gilt. royal octavo. [xv] 291pp. Sunning to spine and edges of cover. Mild foxing to ffep, mild tanning to page edges. Otherwise contents clean and tight. Good+
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007247
- Title
- Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
- Author
- Jonathon Swift; Arthur Rackham
- Illustrator
- Arthur Rackham
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Keywords
- golden age of illustrations, satire, lilliputian, lilliput,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arthur Rackham; The Golden Age of Illustration;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
AJ Scruffles
Biblio member since 2010
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
About AJ Scruffles
AJ Scruffles is an online bookseller, based between Epping and Harlow. Our website also hosts an online magazine with reviews, articles and humour
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
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