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OUR VILLAGE.
by Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855). Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Macmillan, 1910. 256 pp, 10" H. Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt illustrations on spine/front board, top edge gilt.100 b&w illustrations throughout the text by Hugh Thomson and 16 colour plates by Alfred Rawlings tipped on heavy brown stock with caption-bearing tissue guards. All illustrations are present, but the tissue-guard for "The Dragon Inn, Three Mile Cross" is missing. A collection of literary sketches of rural life, based on Mary Mitford's experiences/observations in the hamlet of Three Mile Cross where she lived in the early 1800s. A large 'prize' inscription with two names and the date June 1916 on the free front endpaper, scattered browning and foxing on the endpapers, very light browning in the page margins, heavy browning to the fore-edge and to the bottom of the text block, shelf wear to the bottom of the text block, light to moderate edge wear to the boards, wrining and some tiny tear to the cloth at the top/bottom of the spine, green cloth has faded and browned at the board edges, spine colour has turned to brown, now protected in a stiff mylar sleeve.. Not Signed. Hard Cover. Good+/No Jacket. Illus. by Hugh Thomson & Alfred Rawlings..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capricorn Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31026
- Title
- OUR VILLAGE.
- Author
- Mitford, Mary Russell (1787-1855). Introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson & Alfred Rawlings.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- Mary Russell Mitford, Hugh Thomson, Alfred Rawlings, Illustrated Books, Book Illustration, Rural Life, Rural England, Country Life, Flowers, Gardens, Primroses, Violets, Woods, Balls, Aberleigh, Summer, Nutting, Nuts, Country Inns, 19th Century England, S
- Bookseller catalogs
- Natural History; BRITISH HISTORY; Literature; Art - Book Illustration/Illustrators;
Terms of Sale
Capricorn Books
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About the Seller
Capricorn Books
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Oakville, Ontario
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Shelf Wear
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