The Keepsake by The Countess of Blessington [edited by] - 1848: for 1848

Tape repair/replacement spine, boards covered in what appears to be silk moire but is very grubby.  Text block with 15 plates is firm and holding.  Most pages are lightly tanned and/or a little grubby.  Majority of plates are clean but the borders may need cleaning.

Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans 1842. Super octavo, half red leather bound marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine, aeg, marbled eps, frontispiece, illus full title page, iv + 280pp, illus/plates- not counted presumed present, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems & spine, moderate discolouration to spine, sl tanning to boards, light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals, heavy cracking to front gutters, light to moderate tanning & foxing to plates, 2cm closed tear to frontis)

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN & LONGMANS, LONDON, 1844 FIRST EDITION. HARDBACK BOUND IN A HALF LEATHER BINDING, PAGE EDGES GILT, FRONTIS ENGRAVING + EXTRA ILLUSTRATED TITLE PAGE & NUMEROUS FULL PAGE STEEL ENGRAVINGS, INCLUDES THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF A POEM BY CHARLES DICKENS TITLED A WORD IN SEASON. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES. SPINE EVENLY FADED, MINOR RUBBING TO LEATHER EDGES WITH SOME OCCASIONAL PEELING TO LEATHER AT CORNERS, PRIVATE BOOKPLATE TO INNER FRONT BOARD, MINOR FOXING TO ENDPAPERS & THE VERY OCCASIONAL MINOR MARK OR CREASE TO PAGES. OVERALL IN VERY GOOD CONDITION WITH BOARDS WELL ATTACHED & MAJORITY OF PAGES CLEAN. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK B0X.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn copy bound in full aniline calf with a leather gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some wear and tear to the spine and panel edges as with age. Physical description; 272 pages. Subjects; The Countess of Blessington. Literary Periodicals. Short Stories. 19th century literature.