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THE WORKS OF ALFRED,LORD TENNYSON - POET LAUREATE [COMPLETE IN 12 DELUXE VOLUMES]
by Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
Boston: Estes and Lauriat. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1895. Hardcover. LITERATURE; Engravings; tall 8vo 9" - 10" t; aprox 4300 pages; THE WORKS OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON - POET LAUREATE [COMPLETE IN 12 DELUXE VOLUMES] 3/4 calf leather [ with scuffs on spines and extermities], over marbled boards with matching marbled eps. Large paper limited Edition de Grand Luxe 638/1000. Spine lettered in gilt, raised bands, top edges gilt Illustrated title pages. About 15 illustrations per volume under tissue on heavy Japanese vellum type paper. Fore and bottom text block edges untrimmed with those tips toned- otherwise contents are clean and fine. About 360pp per volume. Provenance Edwin Scott Barbour and Edith Henry Barbour, photogravure armorial bookplate unsigned but believed designed by EDMUND H. GARRETT, a well known artist who did many bookplates . .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29216
- Title
- THE WORKS OF ALFRED,LORD TENNYSON - POET LAUREATE [COMPLETE IN 12 DELUXE VOLUMES]
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Estes and Lauriat
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1895
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Bookplate
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Vellum
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