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The Ballad, Lizzie Lindsay, Written from Memory by George Mitchell, at Mrs. Dawson Rowley's Request, 1891. Second Edition
by Mitchell, George; (After Robert Burns)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Brighton: Privately Printed / J. Bral and Son, 1895. Second Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. Unpaginated. Slim hardback bound in blue and tan cloth with cover designs embossed in gilt and in black. Light to moderate wear to the binding. Bevelled edges, and all edges of the text block are gilt. Blue marbled endpapers. The frontispiece is an actual photographic image or albumen print of George Mitchell with his facsimile signature beneath A sound copy with clean text. A very slim book. There are 3 pages of the Preface, a page showing a couple of lines of the music in facsimile (replicated on the front cover), 3 pages of the lyrics, and then three pages of "Notes of the Mitchell Famaily and George Mitchell's Recollection of the Song, "Lizie Lindsay." Scarce.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 045223
- Title
- The Ballad, Lizzie Lindsay, Written from Memory by George Mitchell, at Mrs. Dawson Rowley's Request, 1891. Second Edition
- Author
- Mitchell, George; (After Robert Burns)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition.
- Publisher
- Privately Printed / J. Bral and Son
- Place of Publication
- Brighton
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Weight
- 1.50 lbs
- Keywords
- 1895; George Mitchell; Robert Burns; Mrs. Dawson Rowley; Lizzie Lindsay; Lizie Lindsay; Music; Scottish; Song; 19th Century; Photographic Image; Photo; Photograph; Tipped-in; Albumen Print; Poetry; Poem.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Poetry; Music;
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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.
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- 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...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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