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POEMS
by INGELOW, JEAN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867. Covers with French fillet borders and central panels, corner floral designs. Spine decorated in elaborate gilt patterns, six panels with title. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Inner dentelles. Contains the PERSONAL BOOK-PLATE OF EDWARD DALZIEL on front pastedown. TIPPED-IN LETTER from Gilbert Dalziel (Edward's son) to a London bookseller requesting sale of the book. On the adjacent page is a HANDWRITTEN LETTER, SIGNED, BY THE JEAN INGELOW. It is addressed to Mr. Dalziel, dated 1876, thanking him for a royalty from the book. The Dalziel Brothers Company was one of the most well-known firms of Victorial engravers, founded in 1839. Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) was an English poet and novelist. As a girl, the contributed verses and tales to magazines under the penname "Orris". Illustrated throughout with 97 illustrations by the Dalziels, Houghton, Wolf, Poynter and others. A finely-bound copy with unusual association material. 318pp. Please see photos.. First Dalziel Edition. Full Emerald Green Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Large Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014468
- Title
- POEMS
- Author
- INGELOW, JEAN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Dalziel Edition
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1867
- Size
- Large Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, Fine Binding, Autograph, Dalziel
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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