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On The Art of Thackeray
by H.N. Wethered
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1938. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 9"by 6". None. A scarce first edition of H.N. Wetherford's On The Art of Thackeray. Focusing on both his life and work, this volume makes for an interesting insight into Thackeray's influence from a Twentieth Century perspective. Includes an illustrative plate to endpages. In cloth binding with gilt detailing and original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally smart, there is some minor shelfwear. The dustwrapper is somewhat chipped, features markings, fading and agewear. Internally, the pages are firmly bound and are lightly foxed throughout. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GEN28-F-24
- Title
- On The Art of Thackeray
- Author
- H.N. Wethered
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1938
- Size
- 9"by 6"
- Keywords
- Thackeray Caricature Humour Caricature
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
Glossary
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
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