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Poems of Wit and Humour
by Hood, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Lock, Ward, and Co.. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 282 pages. A small book measuring 6 1/4 inches tall by nearly 4 1/4 inches wide. Hardcover beautifully bound in full plum leather with elaborate gilt designs on the front cover and the spine. The front cover has a gilt-embossed armorial crest. Dark green label pastedown on the spine, which has 5 raised bands and elaborate gilt tooling in the compartments. Binding has light scuffing/rubbing. All edges of text block are marbled. Prior owner's inscription on second front flyleaf: "Annie Jobson Form V Alternative Science Prize, June 1895". Text is toned but generally clean. There is no copyright date. The Preface is dated 1847, but we suspect this volume was printed about the time is was presented as a prize in 1895. The crest on the front cover is for the "Worshipful Company of Skinners" of London (a guild of Livery Companies granted a royal charter in 1327). It shows a shield with a cat and a dog on either side and with a dog standing atop a helmet at the top. The shield has three crowns and the motto beneath reads, "To God Only Be All Glory". This guild supports several schools in the region.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051298
- Title
- Poems of Wit and Humour
- Author
- Hood, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lock, Ward, and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1895; Thomas Hood; Poems; Wit; Humor; Humour; 19th century; antiquarian; leather binding; Armorial Binding; Guild; Worshipful Company of Skinners; London; Fine Binding.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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....
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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