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The Blue Poetry Book
by Lang, Andrew (Ed)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
London/New York: Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd, 1914. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Ford, H. J.; Speed, Lancelot. Compendium of English & American poetry from the Middle Ages through late 1800s, in 348 pages, with lovely engravings by H. J. Ford & Lancelot Speed throughout, including Frontispiece (with tissue overlay intact). First published in 1891, this is the Sixth Impression from 1914. Hardcover octavo with deep blue cloth over boards, embossed on front cover with illustration of Pan & his lyre singing to lions. Gilt lettering to spine is clean & bright. Overall condition is Near Fine: exceptionally clean, binding straight & secure, pages creamy white with a shadow of tanning around edges; NO foxing. Former owner's name & date in neat pen on verso of ffep facing half title page; NO other writing/underlining/highlighting; NOT ex-lib or BCE. Only real flaws are bumped bottom corners (nearly down to boards) & rubbing to extremities. Otherwise, a clean & bright little copy & nice complement to Lang's Fairy Books of this same era.Photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand.
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- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013020
- Title
- The Blue Poetry Book
- Author
- Lang, Andrew (Ed)
- Illustrator
- Ford, H. J.; Speed, Lancelot
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co. Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London/New York
- Date Published
- 1914
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- POEM POETRY VERSE VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVING LIETERATURE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books/Illustrators; Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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