Undine.
by RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrates). DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ, [Friedrich]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Heinemann, London., 1909. First edition with these illustrations. Adapted from the German by W.L. Courtney. Quarto. pp [viii], 136. Fifteen tipped-in colour plates with captioned tissue guards and thirty black and white head- and tailpieces.One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist and bound in full vellum (or parchment) decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, silk ties.Half-title page tanned. Very good indeed. Unusually, both silk ties are present.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RACKHAMA006906
- Title
- Undine.
- Author
- RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrates). DE LA MOTTE FOUQUÉ, [Friedrich]
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Heinemann, London.
- Date Published
- 1909
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Glossary
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...