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Hudibras: By Samuel Butler. With Dr. Gray's Annotations. A New Edition Corrected and Enlarged. In Three Volumes.
by BUTLER, Samuel
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Beverly Hills, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Charles & Henry Baldwyn, 1819. FORE-EDGE PAINTING. New edition. Three large octavo volumes. Illustrated with black and white woodcut illustrations throughout.
Contemporary maroon morocco, decoratively triple-ruled in gilt on covers and spine with five raised bands. All edges gilt, gilt turn-ins. Spines a bit sunned and rubbed along extremities. Overall, a very good set.
Each volume depicts a fore-edge painting of different markets in London; Smithfield Market, Covent Garden Market and Fleet market respectively.
HBS 67692.
$2,500.
Contemporary maroon morocco, decoratively triple-ruled in gilt on covers and spine with five raised bands. All edges gilt, gilt turn-ins. Spines a bit sunned and rubbed along extremities. Overall, a very good set.
Each volume depicts a fore-edge painting of different markets in London; Smithfield Market, Covent Garden Market and Fleet market respectively.
HBS 67692.
$2,500.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67692
- Title
- Hudibras
- Author
- BUTLER, Samuel
- Illustrator
- FORE-EDGE PAINTING
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles & Henry Baldwyn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1819
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books|Poetry|Sets|London|Seventeenth-Century Literature|Fore-Edge Paintings
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Heritage Book Shop, LLC
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Beverly Hills, California
About Heritage Book Shop, LLC
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
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