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ENOCH ARDEN
by Tennyson, Alfred
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1865. First Illustrated Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown bevelled and beaded cloth, reverse lettering on gilt panel on spine, reverse and gilt lettering on gilt and reverse gilt panels and medallion on cover, blind-stamped panels and medallion on rear cover, AEG. 12mo. 154 pp. (Only 58 pages numbered on recto only, pages with illustrations not numbered). Illustrated with tissue-protected engraved frontispiece portrait of Tennyson and 19 tissue-protected full page engravings by John La Farge, Elihu Vedder, William J. Hennessy, and Felix O. C. Darley; as well as numerous head and tail-pieces and decorated initial capitals. First US Illustrated edition. The first (non-illustrated) edition was published in London and NY the previous year. . Gift inscription on preliminary page dated Febr. 3, 1865, otherwise unmarked; boards mildly rubbed, head and heel of spine and corners lightly worn, tight and square, text block and all illustrations are clean and bright. VERY GOOD.. Engravings. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (154) pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6581
- Title
- ENOCH ARDEN
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred
- Illustrator
- Darley
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Illustrated Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- Poetry;, Tennyson;, Enoch Arden;, Arden;, Religion;, Illustrated Books;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
Round Table Books, LLC lists rare, beautiful and interesting books. All books are described accurately, packed carefully and shipped promptly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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