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The Jackdaw of Rheims [Illustrated by Charles Folkard]
by Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1914. Cloth. Very Good Plus. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Folkard, Charles. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1914. First thus. Winston's attractive American version of the illustrating of the 1837 verse tale by Thomas Ingoldsby [R.H.Barham]. An initially mischievous, but then pious and eventually canonized, crow carries the moral of the tale. Illustrated with 12 tipped-in color plates by Charles Folkard. Folio [about 13.3" x 10.4"], purple beveled cloth with elaborate gilt cover device, fine paper uncut, unpaginated. Original red ribbon fragments laid in. Typical moderate fading to the purple cloth, light soiling, minor endpaper foxing, first plate has a small tear at the corner, but is complete. A very sharp, solid, better than Very Good example. See scan. l-g3
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- Singularity Rare & Fine
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000090
- Title
- The Jackdaw of Rheims [Illustrated by Charles Folkard]
- Author
- Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]
- Illustrator
- Folkard, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John C. Winston
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1914
- Size
- Folio - over 12" - 15"
- Keywords
- Poetry, Illustrations, Folktale, Fine Binding, Juvenile, Children's, Religion Individual Artist, Prints, General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics of Fiction From All Eras;
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- Gilt
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- Device
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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