The Bab Ballads. With Which are Included Songs of a Savoyard. With 350 Illustrations By the Author
by Gilbert, W. S.;
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1898. Third Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. W. S. Gilbert. 1898 Third Edition. Size octavo, 564 pages. Beige cloth covered boards with gilt titles and red vignette illustrations to the front cover and spine, top page edge gilt, outer edge unevenly trimmed. Condition very good, covers rubbed at corners and edges head of spine chipped and frayed, spine sunned, covers a little darkened, slight offsetting onto the title page from the tissue guard that protects the frontispiece, a few pencil notes to contents page and a couple of pages in the text, a couple of spots to a few odd pages here and there else the contents are very clean throughout. This third edition is the first edition containing The Bab Ballads and More Bab Ballads together with Songs of a Savoyard. Title page printed in red and black. With tissue-protected photogravure frontispiece of the author. With 350 illustrations throughout, by the author. 200 of the illustrations were new illustrations produced for this edition, replacing illustrations in previous editions thought by the author to have been "too extravagent
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- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014264
- Title
- The Bab Ballads. With Which are Included Songs of a Savoyard. With 350 Illustrations By the Author
- Author
- Gilbert, W. S.;
- Illustrator
- W. S. Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Lazarus Books Limited
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Blackpool, Lancashire
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