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Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author
by SHELLEY, Henry C
- Used
- near fine
- Condition
- Near fine
- Seller
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Thomaston, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Litte, Brown, and Company, 1908. Cloth. Near fine. H.C. COLBY. H.C. COLBY, illustrator. Colonial Press, Boston. Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. 8vo; [xiii], ix-xv, [i] [2], 341pp; gilt stamped pictorial on blue cloth over board, gilt lettering on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; owner's bookplate on front pastedown; tri-chromatic half-tone photographic illustration frontispiece with tissue guard plus 3 additional color plates; b&w vignette on title page; 32 b&w photographic illustrated plates; small line drawings in text; small mark to spine, small damp stain to fore-edge ffep; near fine. A tour around England illustrated with wonderful black and white photographic illustrations reproduced by half-tone show scenes in and around the country.
A bookplate reading "Ex Libris Henry Hornblower" designed and signed by Edmund H. Garrett 1911 is affixed to the front pastedown. The plate pictures a pastoral scene with a river, and a decorative border features shells, pinecones, and books. Henry Hornblower (1863-1941) was an investment banker and lifelong resident of Massachusetts. Edmund Garret was an American book-plate designer, illustrator, painter, and author.
A bookplate reading "Ex Libris Henry Hornblower" designed and signed by Edmund H. Garrett 1911 is affixed to the front pastedown. The plate pictures a pastoral scene with a river, and a decorative border features shells, pinecones, and books. Henry Hornblower (1863-1941) was an investment banker and lifelong resident of Massachusetts. Edmund Garret was an American book-plate designer, illustrator, painter, and author.
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- Bookseller
- Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1778
- Title
- Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author
- Author
- SHELLEY, Henry C
- Illustrator
- H.C. COLBY
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Litte, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1908
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller
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Thomaston, Maine
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- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of 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....
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