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THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND
by A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Bradbury, Agnew, and Company TWO VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. All edges gilt. Panelled spine with elaborate gilt designs, red and black leather spine labels. Marbled endpapers. Circular gold book-plate on front pastedowns. Volume 1 rebacked with original spine laid-down. SIGNED BINDINGS BY MANSELL. Undated as usually seen, probably late 1880's. The two volumes contain a total of twenty full-page hand-colored steel engravings and two hundred woodcuts. Internalle, both volumes are clean and crisp throughout. 320-304pp. The first edition was published in 1847-48. . Later Edition. Full Tree Calf. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Illus. by John Leech. Crown Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015463
- Title
- THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND
- Author
- A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT
- Illustrator
- John Leech
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- Bradbury, Agnew, and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- Crown Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Hand-colored Plates, England, Fine Binding, Leech
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Jacket
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