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Ireland Picturesque and Romantic
by RITCHIE, LEITCH
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good. Moderate wear to covers, wear to extremities, minor scrapes. Binding square and tight. Light foxing to plates, text o
- Seller
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Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1837. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Moderate wear to covers, wear to extremities, minor scrapes. Binding square and tight. Light foxing to plates, text otherwise clean and bright. Charming bookplate with tree and axe design (Friedrich Baumfeld), previously affixed to front pastedown, now laid in.. Medium 8vo. 6.75 x 9.625 in. 264 pp. Bound in full contemporary roan, ornamented in blind on upper and lower cover, titled in gilt on spine with four raised bands, all edges gilt. Original binder's ticket, 'F. Westley, BINDER, Friar Street, near Doctor's Commons', to rear pastedown. Illustrated with twenty engraved plates, including frontispiece ('The Irish Hood') and engraved title page ('Sackville Street, Dublin'), from drawings by D. McClise and T. Creswick. 'As we get better acquainted with Russia, however, the character of the work, so far as regards its plain unadorned truths, will, the author is convinced, be better appreciated in England; while, in respect to Russia, he has the consolation to know that smuggled copies are at this moment circulating widely through the empire of the Tsar' (advertisement).
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- Bookseller
- Irving Book Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1186
- Title
- Ireland Picturesque and Romantic
- Author
- RITCHIE, LEITCH
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good. Moderate wear to covers, wear to extremities, minor scrapes. Binding square and tight. Light foxing to plates, text o
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1837
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Irving Book Company
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Asheville, North Carolina
About Irving Book Company
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Bookplate
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
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