Punch Or The London Charivari (Volume VIII)
by Punch
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: Published for the Proprietors at the Office, 1845. First Edition. First printing Good+ in a contemporary binding of 1/4 brown leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text and borders on the spine and light brown paper end sheets. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4" by 8 1/4" with the upper one inch and the lower 1/2 inch of the leather backstrip missing, the front joint worn and cracking and with at least 1/2 of the marbled paper on the front board torn away. The leather at the tips of the boards is rubbed and worn. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 270 pages including an index and illustrated throughout with line drawings and cartoons. The Punch Christmas volume for 1845.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB25001
- Title
- Punch Or The London Charivari (Volume VIII)
- Author
- Punch
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Published for the Proprietors at the Office
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1845
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.