Eighteenth Century Essays
by Dobson, Austin (Selected and Annotated)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1889. xxiii, [1], 284pp, contemporary full morocco by Zaehnsdorf, raised flat bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, author to fourth, remaining panels with two repeated butterfly tools, covers with single fillet border and the same butterfly tools repeated, inner edges gilt, t.e.g. with marbled endpapers. Small bump to head of spine, slightly rubbed to extremities, spine slightly dulled. Internally quite bright and clean. Title in red and black. Zaehnsdorf binding with their medallic gilt stamp to lower pastedown which Broomhead notes was "apparently used, along with other similar stamps, as a quality mark on the sperior bindings produced by the firm" (Broomhead, The Zaehnsdorfs, page 73). Selections from several eighteenth century periodicals including Tatler, Spectator and Connoisseur. Not in Alban Dobson's bibliography of books by Austin Dobson. First Edition. Full Morocco. Very Good. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Zetetic Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001140
- Title
- Eighteenth Century Essays
- Author
- Dobson, Austin (Selected and Annotated)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Kegan Paul, Trench and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- Noisbn, Cat Viii, Zaehnsdorf, Fine Binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nineteenth Century; Fine Bindings;
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- 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....
- First Edition
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...