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PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD
by LANG, ANDREW
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, Paris, New York: Goupil and Company, 1900. This is #74/350 copies printed on Japanese paper. Finely-bound and signed by the Harcourt Bindery of Charlestown, Massachusetts. Cover border designs in gilt. Panelled spine with lettering and panel borders in gilt. Inner dente3lles and marbled endpapers. Free endpapers darkened at dentelles. Top edge gilt. 1/2" x 1" piece missing from top of spine. Frontispiece portrait in two states, one of which is hand-colored. Collated complete. All portraits are in two states, with tissue-guards, one of which is titled. A total of 39 full-page portraits in two states and an additional 8 plates in one state. A fine, clean copy throughout. Printed and plates engraved by Manzi, Joyant and Company near Paris. 300pp. Due to size and weight postage will be extra.. Limited Edition. Full Cobalt Blue Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Jacket. Large Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013613
- Title
- PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD
- Author
- LANG, ANDREW
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Goupil and Company
- Place of Publication
- London, Paris, New York
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- Large Quarto
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, England, English History, Art
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
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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