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Speculum Amatis: Love-Poems from Rare Song-Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century [and] Musa Proterva: Love-Poems of the Restoration
by Bullen, A. H. (Edited by)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Privately Printed , 1902. Limited Ed. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two matching volumes, each issued in a limited edition of 400 numbered copies, 'Speculum' being #60 and 'Musa' #63. Privately printed at R. Clay & Sons, Ltd., London & Bungay. Printed letterpress. Uniformly bound in green and cream with gilt titling to spines. Bindings very good with darkening and minor soiling to cream spines, and a small stain to spine head of 'Speculum', but o/w clean, bright and sharp. Top page edges gilt, others untrimmed. Light soiling to tops, a few spots to others. Offsetting, minor spotting to endpapers. Contents clean and white without bookplates or inscriptions. Guttering cracked in a couple of places but both copies firmly bound. xvii, 129; xxiii,128 pp. Printed letterpress. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed-for, and insured.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bath and West Books (PBFA)
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005601
- Title
- Speculum Amatis: Love-Poems from Rare Song-Books and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century [and] Musa Proterva: Love-Poems of the Restoration
- Author
- Bullen, A. H. (Edited by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Ed.
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1902
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Keywords
- Poetry; Signed & Limited Editions; Private Press
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Biblio member since 2009
Bath, Somerset
About Bath and West Books (PBFA)
Bath and West Books is an online/mail order business owned by Jo West and based just outside the city of Bath. I have been dealing in antiquarian and secondhand books since 2003 and I buy and sell books on a wide variety of subjects with particular interests in Literature and Poetry, The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Modern Firsts, History, Politics, Children's and Illustrated Books, Travel, Art, Fine Bindings, Literary Sets, the Folio Society and anything unusual and interesting. Please visit www.BathandWestBooks.co.uk for further information. You can also follow us at Twitter.com/BathWestBooks.
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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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
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