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Prose Masterpieces From Modern Essayists By Irving, Lamb, De Quincy, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle, Macauley, Froude, Freeman & Gladstone With 12 Portrait Photos - Loughborough Grammar School Fine Prize Binding by Bickers & Son of Leicester Square
by G.H.P. [George Haven PUTNAM] preface; Washington IRVING, Charles LAMB, Thomas de QUINCEY, Ralph Waldo EMERSON, Matthew ARNOLD, John MORLEY, James Russell LOWELL, Thomas CARLYLE, Thomas Babington MACAULAY, James Anthony FROUDE, Edward A. FREEMAN, William E
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
First Edition thus (previous edition in 1886 not credited in this volume). Very Good, clean tight condition with only a hint of rubbing to spine head/tail/edges. Fine prize-binding by Bickers & Son of Leicester Square, with their ink pallet on the verso of the front endpaper, in full maroon polished calf, the spine divided into six panels with tooled raised bands, lettered in the second, the others with gilt compartments. The covers with gilt borders and an armorial crest for the Grammar School, Loughborough, with marbled endpapers and gilt edges. Associated bookplate "The Grammar School, Loughborough" to front pastedown (unnamed, 'First in Form Prize for VI Lower').
Essays accompanied "with twelve portraits in permanent photography" including Washington Irving, Charles Lamb, Thomas de Quincey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Matthew Arnold, John Morley, James Russell Lowell, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Babington Macaulay, James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone.
Essays accompanied "with twelve portraits in permanent photography" including Washington Irving, Charles Lamb, Thomas de Quincey, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Matthew Arnold, John Morley, James Russell Lowell, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Babington Macaulay, James Anthony Froude, Edward A. Freeman, William Ewart Gladstone.
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- Bookseller
- Itchen Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 547
- Title
- Prose Masterpieces From Modern Essayists By Irving, Lamb, De Quincy, Emerson, Arnold, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle, Macauley, Froude, Freeman & Gladstone With 12 Portrait Photos - Loughborough Grammar School Fine Prize Binding by Bickers & Son of Leicester Square
- Author
- G.H.P. [George Haven PUTNAM] preface; Washington IRVING, Charles LAMB, Thomas de QUINCEY, Ralph Waldo EMERSON, Matthew ARNOLD, John MORLEY, James Russell LOWELL, Thomas CARLYLE, Thomas Babington MACAULAY, James Anthony FROUDE, Edward A. FREEMAN, William E
- Format/Binding
- Full polished calf by Bickers, gilt-decorated spine, armorial gilt at front board, two-line gilt borders, marbled endpapers and
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bickers & Son
- Place of Publication
- Leicester Square, London
- Date Published
- 1896
- Pages
- 395
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fine binding, Prize binding, Loughborough Grammar School, Leicestershire
Terms of Sale
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Itchen Books
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Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire
About Itchen Books
20th Century first editions with some older items. Specialist areas of interest include Russian literature, Irish literature.
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