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PERICLES & ASPASIA. 2 VOLUME SET IN DECORATIVE BINDINGS - WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN TWO STATES.
by Landor, Walter Savage. Edited by C.G. Crump
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: J.M. Dent, 1890. 215 pp, 242 pp - 2 volume set. B&w illustrations. "This Edition is limited to Five Hundred copies for England, and Five Hundred Copies for America (acquired by Messrs. Macmillan and Co.)." 6 1/2" H, medium brown leather spines and corners (spines with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering), cream vellum boards with gilt banding, all edges gilt, red ribbon bookmarks (no longer attached, but present). Red endpapers, with each front pastedown bearing the book plate of Herbert Henry Raphael (later Sir Henry), Liberal politician, town planner and trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Each book has three illustrations, including a frontispiece by Herbert Railton - in this set, each illustration is present in two states - one on coated art paper and one on laid paper, each with a tissue-guard. Landor presents fictionalized correspondence between the 5th century B.C. Greek general, Pericles and his lover, Aspasia and with other prominent figures of the time (the majority of the letters are between Aspasia and Cleone, an Athenian statesman). Very light toning to some pages, most tissue guards have light foxing and also on the laid paper illustrations, light to moderate corner wear on boards, light rubbing to leather edges and spine bands, volume 2 has one small corner bump, volume 1 has a very small dent on the gilt fore-edge of the text block, vellum has very light rubbing and soiling.. Limited Edition.. Three-Quarter Leather. Very Good. Illus. by Herbert Railton, et al..
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- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30461
- Title
- PERICLES & ASPASIA. 2 VOLUME SET IN DECORATIVE BINDINGS - WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN TWO STATES.
- Author
- Landor, Walter Savage. Edited by C.G. Crump
- Illustrator
- Herbert Railton, et al.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Limited Edition.
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Keywords
- Pericles, Aspasia, Greek Statesmen, Greek Women, Ancient Greece, Letters, Correspondence, Fictionalized Accounts, Fiction, Cleone, Politics, Religion, Philosophy, Athens, Illustrated Books, Leather Bindings, Leather Bound, Imaginary Correspondence, Greek
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Historical Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Capricorn Books
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Glossary
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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...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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....
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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