Queen Anne
by Paul, Herbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- g+
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Paris; Edinburgh; New York; London: Goupil & Co, 1906. Limited First edition. Hardcover. g+. 1/800. Folio. [10], 202, [2]pp. Uncut. 3/4 calf over marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and tooling on spine and blind-stamped ruling on covers. Top edge gilt. Limitation page in red and black lettering. Color frontispiece portrait of Queen Anne protected with a captioned tissue-guard. Title page in red and black lettering. Publisher's vignette on title. Illustrated head-, and tailpieces. Decorative initials. A first and limited edition of this lavishly illustrated work on the reign of Queen Anne (1665-1714) who ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland on 8 March 1702. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain. This work is profusely illustrated throughout with numerous tissue-guarded duo-tone engravings. Limited edition of 800 copies on fine paper of which this is number 388. Moderate rubbing along edges of binding. Damp-staining at lower margin of back cover (not affecting text pages). Marbled paper partly creased and chipped at lower margin of back cover. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of front cover (Reginald Gurney). Moderate foxing on very first and very last pages. Sporadic and minor foxing throughout. Binding in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35363
- Title
- Queen Anne
- Author
- Paul, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited First edition
- Publisher
- Goupil & Co
- Place of Publication
- Paris; Edinburgh; New York; London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Keywords
- Biography, Historical biography, Queens of England, Engravings, Limited edition, First edition
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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- G+
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- First Edition
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- Rubbing
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- Title Page
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- Calf
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Marbled Paper
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- 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...
- Vignette
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- Folio
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