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SUPPRESSED PLATES: Wood Engravings, &c., Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto. Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector. by Layard, George Somes - 1907

by Layard, George Somes

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SUPPRESSED PLATES: Wood Engravings, &c., Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto. Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector. by Layard, George Somes - 1907

SUPPRESSED PLATES: Wood Engravings, &c., Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto. Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector.

by Layard, George Somes

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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Mild wear to edges of covers, else very good. xiii, 254, advert leaf at rear, profusely illustrated with plates and text illustrations; octavo, orginal dark green cloth with title and cover ornaments block in gilt and black, top edge gilt.

Entertaining catalog of suppressed plates from a wide variety of sources, including Dickens, Thackeray, Omar Khayyam, Hogarth, Punch, et al
  • Bookseller Chanticleer Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used - Mild wear to edges of covers, else very good
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Adam and Charles Black
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1907

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SUPPRESSED PLATES: Wood Engravings, &. Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector

by Layard, George Somes

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
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FIRST EDITION
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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very good-/No dust jacket. Wood Engravings, &. Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto Being an Account of Certain Matters Peculiarly Alluring to the Collector. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. FIRST EDITION. Numerous b/w illustrations. xiii, 254 + 2 ads pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth. Gilt lettering and decoration to spine and front board. Small tears to head and heel; head, heel and corners bumped and worn; boards lightly worn, moreso at boards edges; top edge gilt; bookplate to front pastedown; front free endpaper creased; light foxing to endpapers; interior toned. Still, a sound copy. Very good-/No dust jacket.
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Suppressed Plates

by Layard, George Somes

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London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/No Dust jacket. First edition, with 1907 on title page, "Published November 1907" on copyright page. Clean olive green cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on cover and spine. Tiny closed tears and wear at top and bottom spine edges, small spot of wear-through to two corner tips. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with gilt top page edges. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 254 pp. with index. Illustrated with drawings and black and white plates..
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Suppressed Plates: Wood Engravings etc., Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto.

Suppressed Plates: Wood Engravings etc., Together with Other Curiosities Germane Thereto.: Being an account of certain matters peculiarly alluring to the collector.

by Layard, George Somes

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  • Hardcover
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Used
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Hardcover
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Skibbereen, Ireland
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1907. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. 15 x 21.5cm. Frontispiece, (13), 254 pages, with 34 black and white illustration plates. Original embossed green cloth hardcover with gilt lettering on spine and gilt top edges. Some signs of shelf wear to spine and corners, slight lean, front free endpaper foxed, otherwise very good condition. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to front endpaper. G.S. Layard explores in this book illustrations that had been censored for various reasons during the Victorian age. In the introduction, the author explains: "No one who has the itch for book-collecting will deny that suppressed book illustrations are, what the forbidden fruit was to our mother Eve, irresistible." Contents include for example: The Suppressed Portrait of Dickens / Dickens Cancelled Plates / The Marquis of Steyne / Cancelled Designs for Punch and Once a Week by Charles Keene and Frederick Sandys / Suppressed Plates by George Cruikshank / The Suppressed Omar Khayyam Etching / Hogarth's "Enthusiasm… Read More
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