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PLAYING TRADES.
by GREY, Heraclitus.:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, (1877).. SECOND EDITION (printed on title) inscribed 1877. Small 8vo, 170 x 125 mm, 6¾ x 5 inches, original publisher's green cloth, lettered gilt, illustrated gilt and black on upper cover and spine, all edges gilt, 160 pages. 16 charming brightly coloured plates each showing young children in various grown-up activities. Amusing prose text in large print follows the same set of children throughout. Inner hinges neatly strengthened with green tape, head and tail of spine and corners slightly worn, fore-edges of boards rubbed, gilt slightly worn, cloth slightly marked, book leaning slightly. Occasional fingermarking, occasional pale spot to margins, couple of plates slightly dusty along edges and very slightly chipped on edges. A good tight copy. The trades: baking bread and cakes; cobbling boots and shoes; cutting hair and fitting wigs; selling shoes; blowing glass; doing upholstery and carpentry; bricklaying; making umbrellas and baskets; mending pots and pans; playing at blacksmiths. First published in 1870 (Osborne II,101). MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Roger Middleton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46794
- Title
- PLAYING TRADES.
- Author
- GREY, Heraclitus.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Cassell, Petter & Galpin, (1877).
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- trades colour plates children's Victorian picture book.
Terms of Sale
Roger Middleton
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About the Seller
Roger Middleton
Biblio member since 2010
Oxford, Oxfordshire
About Roger Middleton
We are a postal business only, selling rare and antiquarian books on interesting subjects.
Glossary
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
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