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Undine: a Legend Translated by F. E. Bunnett; Illustrations by Julius Hoppner
by De La Motte Fouque, Baron
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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GRASS VALLEY, California, United States
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About This Item
London & N. Y.: Griffith; Dutton. Good+. (1885). Hardcover. Rubbing and wear to corners; soil mainly to back cover. Foxing to tissue frontis and extremities of title page with moderate foxing mailny to margins of frontis illustration; light to moderate foxing to the rest of the tissue guards and partially to plates at edges of illustration and margins. ; Original gilt decorated cream cloth with inset color illustration front cover. Color illustrated tissue frontis and eight striking full page color plates with tissue guards; text pages in decorative borders with head and tail-piece vignettes. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Unpaginated pages; The classic fairy tale of the water nymph Undine from the 1811 romantic novella by Fouque with stunning chromolithographic illustrations. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11575
- Title
- Undine: a Legend Translated by F. E. Bunnett; Illustrations by Julius Hoppner
- Author
- De La Motte Fouque, Baron
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- Griffith; Dutton
- Place of Publication
- London & N. Y.
- Date Published
- (1885)
- Keywords
- Fairy Tales, FOLKLORE, Illustrated Books, Chromolithography, Getman 36
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books;
Terms of Sale
G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
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About the Seller
G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
Biblio member since 2005
GRASS VALLEY, California
About G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
Full time bookseller since 1978.I check e-mail & phone queries frequently and endeavor to respond promptly.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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