Mores Ridiculi
by J.E. Rogers
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Gleneden Beach, Oregon, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillian and Company, 1871. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Original 1871 Edition with all 12 beautiful colored plates, oblong format 8.25 inches in height by 11.5 inches in width.Rare original children's book complete with all 12 plates, each depicting a nursery rhyme.The plates are full page and really remarkable, brilliant colors and show great artistic composition and detail. The book is overall at least Good, pages disbound and loose in binding, some light grubbiness on plate margins and toning, title page present and shows some light staining, one plate has a tear affecting an inch of image, the image plate guards mostly present and show edge wear, the binding is brown paper over boards, with large pieces missing, title still legible but edges and corners show wear, spine intact. Plates suitable for framing or good candidate for preservation. Priced according to condition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pacific Coast Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002328
- Title
- Mores Ridiculi
- Author
- J.E. Rogers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillian and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1871
- Keywords
- Children's Books, Illustrated Children's Books, Hand Illustrated Books
Terms of Sale
Pacific Coast Books
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives mis-described or damaged.
About the Seller
Pacific Coast Books
Biblio member since 2015
Gleneden Beach, Oregon
About Pacific Coast Books
Pacific Coast Books specializes in quality of books of interest from our store on the Central Oregon Coast. We are proud members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and have been buying and selling books for almost 20 years. Visit our website at www.Pacifc CoastBooks.net. Please feel free to call or email with any titles you would like to add to your collection. Only a small fraction of our inventory is online. We buy book collections.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...