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The Complete Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Steel Engravings, from the Original Pictures. With an introductory essay, by James Hannay; and descriptive letterpress, by the Rev. J. Trusler, and E.F. Roberts
by William Hogarth
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
The London Printing and Publishing Company, 1860. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 201 numbered pages, not including the plates, which are singled-sided. Date not stated, c. 1860s. 4to (9-1/2" x 11-7/8", 2-1/4" thick), full leather with decorative gilt border on front and back boards; five divisions on spine with raised separations and gilt "HOGARTH" against black in the second compartment, partially rubbed away; leather rubbed, eroded and scratched, with tear to back board; corners worn through to underlying cardboard; hinges cracked and cover split along them, with backstrip loose at the rear; vertical crease to the length of the spine opposite where binding is cracked at p. 137. Marbled edges 2nd image), decorative end papers (3rd image). A few pages near end of book have creases and chipping along fore-edge. Frontispiece (self-portrait) and half-title ("The Milk Maid") engravings shown in 4th and 5th images. Engravings have imparted their stain to the facing page in most cases, and foxing is denser on some pages facing the plates, very faint on others; only in a few cases does foxing extend to the pictures themselves, though the white margins of some plates have faint foxing; many text pages and some plate margins are quite clean. Heavy book, will incur shipping surcharge.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-399
- Title
- The Complete Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of One Hundred and Fifty Steel Engravings, from the Original Pictures. With an introductory essay, by James Hannay; and descriptive letterpress, by the Rev. J. Trusler, and E.F. Roberts
- Author
- William Hogarth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The London Printing and Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1860
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WILLIAM HOGARTH, JAMES HANNAY, J. TRUSLER, E.F. ROBERTS, ENGRAVINGS, SATIRE, 18TH CENTURY
- Bookseller catalogs
- English literature; Art; Humor;
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We process orders and ship books within 48 hours. We cannot cancel an order after it has shipped. Please contact Berthoff Books immediately to request cancellation of a processed order; if we catch the book before it has shipped, we will confirm that the purchaser may cancel the order with full refund.
Our standard domestic shipping rate is for USPS Media Mail shipments weighing up to 2 lb. Books are packaged in bubble-pack envelopes or a cardboard box with moisture protection. International shipping rates are for packages weighing up to 2 lb (0.9 kg). Heavier or oversized items may incur a shipping surcharge, which will be stated to the buyer before finalization of the transaction. Shipping charge may be reduced on some books weighing less than 1 lb to U.S. addresses. International Priority shipping charges may be reduced on books that fit in a USPS small flat-rate box. International Standard (First-Class Package International) shipping charges may be reduced for a second or more books if the total package weight does not exceed 2 lb. Shipping speeds are estimates based on carrier delivery times and cannot be guaranteed. If your order will pass through Customs, please expect a delay. Any applicable Customs duties or brokerage fees are the responsibility of the buyer.
About the Seller
Berthoff Books
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
About Berthoff Books
Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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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