Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors : Robert Southey
by Hubbard, Elbert
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
Item Price
€70.12€49.09
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About This Item
New York, U.S.A.: Roycrofters, 1900. Copy right dated 1899 to front, actual publishing date October 1900 to rear. Numbered 446/940 copies signed by Elbert Hubbard. Arts and craft publishing house, book is created using Full Tan Suede bds with yapped edges, bright Gilt embossed titles, Brown Silk pastedowns, Paper is handmade and Watermarked by Roycrofts, illustrations are hand Woodblock printed and Hand Coloured with title page portrait and initials being designed by Samuel Warner. 104 pages CONDITION Suede faded at spine faded, light wear to spine heel, nice clean copy with wonderful portrait of Southey to front with clean tissue guard. An exceptionally good copy of what is an unusually fragile book.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Full-Leather. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Warner, Samuel. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11386
- Title
- Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors : Robert Southey
- Author
- Hubbard, Elbert
- Illustrator
- Warner, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Roycrofters
- Place of Publication
- New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- American Arts and Craft Press
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography;
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Ariel Books
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
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- BDS
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