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The History of Patient Grisel - 1619
by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for The Villon Society. Very Good. 1885. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Chap-books and Folk-lore Tracts - First Series IV; 46 pages; Contents clean and secure in original white Japanese vellum with gilt lettering at spine, some wear at spine edges. A beautifully printed facsimile edition of the 1619 edition of The History of Patient Grisel with an Introduction by Henry B. Wheatley. .
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- Bookseller
- Antiquarian Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44741
- Title
- The History of Patient Grisel - 1619
- Author
- Wheatley, Henry Benjamin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- Printed for The Villon Society
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 12mo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Seventeenth Century Literature, Griselda, Folklore and Legends, Fine Printing
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Press;
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Antiquarian Book Shop
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Washington, District of Columbia
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At The Antiquarian Book Shop, located in Georgetown - an historic neighborhood of Washington, D.C. we have been buying, selling & appraising rare, interesting and scholarly books in Georgetown for more than 30 years. Over those many years we have taken great pleasure from satisfying our customers' eclectic literary requirements in the shop and hope to continue in that tradition now that we have moved our operation on-line.Currently, our catalogued inventory includes about 4,000 books from the sixteenth century through the twentieth century in a variety of subject areas. Our stock comprises antiquarian books, collectible books and scholarly books, as well as a selection of antique prints and ephemera.The books listed here represent only a small portion of our total inventory. We are in the process of cataloguing the extensive holdings in our warehouse (15,000+ books) and hope to flesh out these pages over the months to come. Our new format allows us to expand & update our listings frequently. We have included images of many items listed to better convey their quality and condition.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
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