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THE SEASONS
by (KELLIEGRAM BINDING) THOMSON, JAMES
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: James Nisbet and Company, 1859. Covers and spine with intricate gilt Art Deco designs. Central oval cameo on each cover depicting the four seasons. Violets and roses representing Spring and Summer on front cover. Grapes and winter lilies on rear cover for Autumn and Winter. The flowers are constructed of inlaid pieces of colored leather. All edges gilt. Gilt tooled inner dentelles. Blue silk endpapers. Original covers and spine are bound-in at rear. A SIGNED BINDING BY KELLIEGRAM. Illustrations through the text by Birket Foster, Noel Humphreys, F.R. Picklesgill, J. Wolfe, and G. Thomas. A crisp and clean copy throughout with one blemish, brown spot at top of pp.28-29. 228pp. Housed in a custom brown cloth drop-front lined box with gently-worn corners. Beautiful inlaid, colorful Kelliegram bindings wre among the many innovations of the English binding firm of Kelly and Sons. The Kelly family had one of the longest tenures in the history of the binding trade in London, founded in 1770 by John Kellie, as the name was then spelled. The firm was carried on by successive family members into the 1930's. This is a fine example of their craftsmanship. Please see photos.. First Edition. Full Polished Brown Levant. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015402
- Title
- THE SEASONS
- Author
- (KELLIEGRAM BINDING) THOMSON, JAMES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- James Nisbet and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1859
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Kelliegram Binding, English Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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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...
- Spine
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