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THE MISER'S DAUGHTER: A TALE BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH. WITH TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS ON STEEL BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK Complete in One Volume
by Ainsworth Harrison W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Cunningham and Mortimer. Very Good. 1842. First Edition; early printing. Hardcover. ; Half leather over clean green pebbled cloth. Spine with gilt decorated raised bands. Top edge gilt with single ruled border on covers. Marbled endpaper. Pictorial title page & frontispiece. This appears to be a rare printing of the book complete in one volume by Cunningham & Mortimer with 20 steel plates by Cruikshank. Armorial bookplate of Norcliffe Gilpin of Kentmere. Spine head has a tiny chip. First three pages are very lightly foxed. A narrow stain on the bottom margin of most plates. Several pages of text have been professionally restored. Literature, Fiction; Steel Engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 419 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17028
- Title
- THE MISER'S DAUGHTER: A TALE BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH. WITH TWENTY ILLUSTRATIONS ON STEEL BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK Complete in One Volume
- Author
- Ainsworth Harrison W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition; early printing
- Publisher
- Cunningham and Mortimer
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1842
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
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About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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- Bookplate
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
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