Oriental Fairy Tales, or Fancy's Wanderings in the East
by Harvey, William; illustrated by The Brothers Dalziel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Routledge & Co.. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1857. Hardcover. Binding very loose, hinges broken. Cloth boards very rubbed and faded. Some small tears and chips to cloth. Title and extra illustrated title leaf detached. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper "Mary Lind. / 19th November 1861." Suitable for rebinding. ; [iv], 338 pages + frontispiece + extra illustrated title leaf + 6 plates. Purple cloth boards with gilt on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 170 x 105mm.Engraved vignette illustrations. The 6 plates are facing pages: 22, 92, 122, 154, 182, 232. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20882
- Title
- Oriental Fairy Tales, or Fancy's Wanderings in the East
- Author
- Harvey, William; illustrated by The Brothers Dalziel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with No dust jacket as issued
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....