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Beaux & Belles of England
by Beaux & Belles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Westbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Grolier Society 1900. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. First Edition thus. One of 1000 Edition de Luxe with hand coloured frontispieces, numerous plates with captioned tissue-guards. Occasional light spotting intermittently, generally bright clean and crisp. Contemporary deep purple morocco, decorative gilt fuchsias to upper covers and spines, gilt turn-ins, top edges gilt. Spine uniformly sunned to crimson. Minor rubbing to heads of spines, overall a very good library set. Biographies include Laurence Sterne, The Sheridans, Lady Hamilton and Lord Nelson, Beau Brummel, Fanny Burney, Charles James Fox, Horace Walpole, Nell Gwyn et al. The set is complete with all 29 volumes. Provenance: Phyllis Bryant - bookplates
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Details
- Bookseller
- finecopy ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 110461
- Title
- Beaux & Belles of England
- Author
- Beaux & Belles
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grolier Society 1900
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
finecopy ltd
14 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 14 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
finecopy ltd
Biblio member since 2024
Westbury, Wiltshire
About finecopy ltd
Finecopy Ltd is a member of the ABA ILAB and the PBFA based in the South West of England. We specialise in all English literature including modern authors and Modern Art. We also carry a collection of important and interseting works across the antiquarian spectrum from Science to Economics
Glossary
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- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
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