POEMS By Thomas Hood : With Illustrations ( Routledges Red Line Poets )
by Hood, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Broadway, London: George Routledge and Sons. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. From the "Routledges Red Line Poets" Series. Frontis illustrated with B&W Plate showing Hood's Monument in Kensal Green Cemetary. 5 other Full-Page Plates, also some Decorative Headpieces. Pages have a Red Linear Border with Decorative corners. Beautiful Green Cloth Cover with inset Brown & Gilt Decorated Quatrefoil Pane with Hood's name. Gilt and Black Decoration on the upper surface. Spine has Gilt and Black Decoration with Horizontal Divisions in the manner of an Antique Leather Binding. Beveled Edges. All Page Edges Gilt. 478 Pages + Publisher's Catalogue. 7 1/4" Tall, 620g. Undated Edition, Gift inscription on ffep Dated 1880. No other inscriptions. Very slight edge wear. Some spots of browning to first few pages, only a very occasional spot elsewhere. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" Tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016660
- Title
- POEMS By Thomas Hood : With Illustrations ( Routledges Red Line Poets )
- Author
- Hood, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Broadway, London
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/POETRY/ENGLISH/HOOD
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About the Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
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