THE NURSE, A POEM
by Tansillo, Luigi
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About This Item
Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, for Cadell and Davies, 1800. Second edition. 17 cm. (4), [5]-31, (1), [1]-89, (3), [1]-34 pp. Two woodcut plates, plus head- and tail-piece woodcut vignettes. Full contemporary green straight-grained morocco (spine darkened), single gilt filet on covers and flat spine, gilt title on spine, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt, with a colored painting of a pastoral village scene hidden under the gilt fore-edges. Some foxing to text. Tranlsated from the Italian by William Roscoe (his translation on rectos, original Italian on facing pages). Old pencil note on verso of front endpaper states it was bound by [Henry] Walther. Weber (pp. 43 & 118) says Walther, a German bookbinder was working in London by 1800, and was known to produce morocco-bound books "whose fore-edges we now find decorated with hidden paintings." A very good copy.
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- Bookseller
- Bartlebys Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59869
- Title
- THE NURSE, A POEM
- Author
- Tansillo, Luigi
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed by J. M'Creery, for Cadell and Davies
- Place of Publication
- Liverpool
- Date Published
- 1800
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...