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Eighteenth Century Essays

by Dobson, Austin (Selected and Annotated)

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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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Bookseller's Inventory #
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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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