Pablo de Segovia: The Spanish Sharper
by Quevedo-Villegas, Francisco de
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good- (vellum boards highly scuffed, smudged & stained; edge-worn. gilt spine printing worn w/ 5inch tear to lower edge & spine
- Seller
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Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: T Fisher Unwin, 1892. Hardcover. Good- (vellum boards highly scuffed, smudged & stained; edge-worn. gilt spine printing worn w/ 5inch tear to lower edge & spine top torn, both flapped. back hinge cracked w/ some of bind material split; rattled. pastedowns & endpapers tanned & foxed). Daniel Vierge. vellum boards w/ gilt printing. book xlii, 239 pp.; 110 bw drawings w/ tissue-guard frontispiece. all edges red. Textblock has four slight splits; binding material and textblock fairly resilient. Pages remain bright with instances of moderate to dark dampstaining to edges; instances of speckled foxing. Text in English.Translation of Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas's original story; Illustrated by the Spanish-born French illustrator Daniel Vierge; Includes comments on the illustrations by Joseph Pennell, as well as an essay about the life and work of Quevedo-Villegas by Henry Edward Watts.
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- Bookseller
- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121973
- Title
- Pablo de Segovia: The Spanish Sharper
- Author
- Quevedo-Villegas, Francisco de
- Illustrator
- Daniel Vierge
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good- (vellum boards highly scuffed, smudged & stained; edge-worn. gilt spine printing worn w/ 5inch tear to lower edge & spine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- T Fisher Unwin
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1892
- Keywords
- European Artists ; Vierge, Daniel ; ;
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- Cracked
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- Spine
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- Vellum
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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...