KATE GREENAWAY
by M.H.SPIELMANN & G.S.LAYARD
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK / A & C Black, 1905 Blue Decorative cloth boards with gilt titles to spine, 230 x 170 mm approx, xx + 302 pp + 2 of publisher's adverts. Colour frontis with captioned tissue guard + 53 further colour plates inc. the illustrated nursery wall paper end papers, 34 b/w plates and 56 line drawings in text all as called for. First Edition 1905 ( 20 s. Series, 3,000 copies - Inman).Biography of the Victorian Illustrator with many of her paintings and drawings together with copious extracts of her correspondence with John Ruskin with whom she had a longstanding friendship. (Book- Significant fading to spine and some uneven fading to boards, moderate shel wear mainly to head and tail, professionally repaired tear of 6 cm to free front end paper near gutter, slight damage to opposing colour plates pp 64/65 - see images, binding sound with no other notable defects). Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126688
- Title
- KATE GREENAWAY
- Author
- M.H.SPIELMANN & G.S.LAYARD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK / A & C Black
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1905
- Keywords
- Kate Greenaway, M H Spielmann, G S Layard, John Ruskin, Victorian Children's Book Illustration, Biography, A & C Black Colour Books,
Terms of Sale
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...