The Heroic Life And Exploits Of Siegfried The Dragon Slayer. An Old German Story. With Eight Illustrations Designed By Wilhelm Kaulbach.
by KAULBACH, Wilhelm:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Joseph Cundall & David Bogue, 1848. Hardback, 9 x 7 inches. In dark brown cloth with blind embossed decorative boards, gilt dragon vignette to front. Later maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Later cloth to spine, professionally rebacked. Corners bumped and boards rubbed around edges, some fading to cloth. Reinforcement to hinges between endpapers, binding tight and sound. Some glue repairs to plates, plates darkened with some handling marks and foxing spots, handling marks to pages throughout. Well-loved, else a very good copy. 118pp. Illustrated with Eight full-page B&W plates by Wilhelm Kaulbach.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
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- Title
- The Heroic Life And Exploits Of Siegfried The Dragon Slayer. An Old German Story. With Eight Illustrations Designed By Wilhelm Kaulbach.
- Author
- KAULBACH, Wilhelm:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Joseph Cundall & David Bogue, 1848
- Keywords
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