Tales from Maria Edgeworth.
by EDGEWORTH, Maria. DOBSON, Austin (introduces)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Wells Gardner, Darton, London., 1903. First edition of this selection. Octavo. pp xxiv, 418. 51 black-and-white drawings, many of them full-page, by Hugh Thomson. Original burgundy gilt pictorial cloth. Top edge gilt.Corners slightly bruised. Prelims and edges a little spotted. Very good indeed in the very scarce dustwrapper, based on Thomson's design and printed in gilt on purple paper, nicked, rubbed and creased at edges.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EDGEWORT004457
- Title
- Tales from Maria Edgeworth.
- Author
- EDGEWORTH, Maria. DOBSON, Austin (introduces)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Wells Gardner, Darton, London.
- Date Published
- 1903
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About the Seller
Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
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- Gilt
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Dustwrapper
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- Octavo
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