The Nursery Rhyme Book
by Lang, Andrew (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Minus
- Seller
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Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London and New York: Frederick Warne & Co, 1898. Dark blue boards with gilt lettering to front and spine, rubbed and stained in places, gilt decoration to spine, spine edges worn, corners and spine ends bumped, small chips to foot of spine, gilt closed edges, decorated endpapers with nursery rhyme characters, spotting to endpapers, initial pages and to edges of pages throughout, frontispiece of 'Little Bo Peep', illustrations to each page by L. Leslie Brook, pp clean, unmarked, text clear to read, binding loose, internal gutters cracked exposing binding in places, Notes and Index of First Lines to rear of book.. Cloth Covered Boards. Good Minus. Illus. by L.Leslie Brooke. 8vo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookcase (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74346
- Title
- The Nursery Rhyme Book
- Author
- Lang, Andrew (Editor)
- Illustrator
- L.Leslie Brooke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Minus
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- Childrens;
- Size
- 8vo
Terms of Sale
Bookcase
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Bookcase
Biblio member since 2009
Carlisle, Cumbria
About Bookcase
A Georgian four-floor antiquarian bookshop in Carlisle's historic quarter specialising in Cumbria, Scotland, Mountaineering and rare finds. We are a friendly business, which was started by a local family and is run by friendly and experienced team members.
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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"...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...