PARABLES FROM NATURE
by GATTY. MRS. ALFRED. C. W. Cope, P. H. Calderon, W. Holman Hunt, W. Millais, Otto Speckter, G. Thomas and E. Warren. Illustrate
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bell & Daldy. London. 1873. REPRINT. Originally published in 1855. 8vo. (8 x 5.6 inches). Illustrated throughout with decorative head and tail pieces plus frontis and fifteen full page plates, each with a plain paper guard. Neat previous owners 3 line inscription (dated 1876) on the half title. Some minor spotting to a few pages but generally a clean and bright copy in the publishers highly decorative green cloth binding with bevelled edged boards. Elaborate gilt and blind stamped decoration and lettering to the front board. The rear board with a blind stamped decorative panel pattern. Spine fully decorated and lettered in gilt. Off white endpapers. All edges gilt. Some bumping to the extremities and the spine a little dulled but overall a very good copy of this pretty book. A classic piece of decorative Victoriana.
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- Bookseller
- Paul Foster Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8553
- Title
- PARABLES FROM NATURE
- Author
- GATTY. MRS. ALFRED. C. W. Cope, P. H. Calderon, W. Holman Hunt, W. Millais, Otto Speckter, G. Thomas and E. Warren. Illustrate
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bell & Daldy. London. 1873
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's and Illustrated books;
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- 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....