Irish Melodies
by Moore, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good condition
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Octavo. xlii (i), 218pp., 13 plates, including frontispiece and vignette on title page. Original publisher's green leather with lavish gilt decor on boards and spine, gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Gilt edges. Gilt dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving and engraved vignette on first title page. Title page with black frame. Illustrated with thirteen engravings from eminent artists. including H. Robinson, F. Holl, R. Wallis, L. Stocks and others. Poems commissioned to be set to music by the Irish composer John Stevenson (1761-1833). Some scuffing along edges of binding and hinges. Endpapers with some damp-staining. Light offsetting of frontispiece to title page.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52406
- Title
- Irish Melodies
- Author
- Moore, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1856
- Keywords
- poems, melodies, engraving, H. Robinson, F. Holl, R. Wallis, L. Stocks
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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