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Some British Ballads [signed limited edition].

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Some British Ballads [signed limited edition].

by Arthur Rackham [illustrator]:

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  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
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About This Item

London: Constable & co, no date [1919]. First edition, limited to 575 numbered copies (this is copy number 87), signed by Rackham on the limitation page. 4to (29cm by 23cm), 170pp. 16 colour plates, mounted on art card and protected by tissues. Original white vellum spine, parchment boards, gilt titling to the front boardand the spine, top edge gilt. There is some rubbing of the boards, some minor spotting of the preliminary pages, and a mnor scuffmark to the corner of one of the plates, but this is generally a bright good to very good copy overall.

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Bookseller
Cornell Books Limited GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
77726
Title
Some British Ballads [signed limited edition].
Author
Arthur Rackham [illustrator]:
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
London: Constable & co, no date [1919].

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About Cornell Books Limited

We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!

Glossary

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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...
Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
Parchment
Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
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....
Vellum
Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
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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