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The Comic Annual
by Thomas Hood
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Charles Tilt, 1832. Cloth. Good. 6.5" by 4". None. A smart and scarce annual volume of humorous work written and edited by Thomas Hood. Early edition. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece, vignette, and forty-eight plates, with many in-text images. Collated complete. The Comic Annual was a humour volume that began publication in 1830 and ran until 1842. A total of eleven volumes were published as no annuals were printed in 1840 or 1841. Written and edited by Thomas Hood, an English poet, author and humorist who wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original quarter crushed morocco with pictorial paper boards. Externally, sound with bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Minor loss to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 855T62
- Title
- The Comic Annual
- Author
- Thomas Hood
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Tilt
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1832
- Size
- 6.5" by 4"
- Keywords
- Comic Annual Hood Annual
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Rooke Books
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...