La Lyre Francaise.
by MASSON, GUSTAVE:
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Macmillan, London, 1898. Title vignette. Small 8vo (6 1/4 x 4 inches), 456-pages. Contemporary full tan polished marbled calf, decorative gilt border to sides enclosing a gilt wreath and lettered in gilt "Gisburne House, Watford", all edges marbled.Spine floral gilt with lettering piece. The binding for Sotheran, Londom. A very pretty binding but unfortunately a large chip out of the lower fore corner of the upper cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21384
- Title
- La Lyre Francaise.
- Author
- MASSON, GUSTAVE:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Macmillan, London, 1898.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Bristow and Garland
Returns accepted within 7 days of receipt if found not as described.
About the Seller
Bristow and Garland
Biblio member since 2005
Shaftesbury, Dorset
About Bristow and Garland
Long established antiquarian & secondhand booksellers and dealers in autographs and manuscripts.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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...