The Hand of Ethelberta. A Comedy In Chapters. In Two Volumes. With Eleven Illustrations.
Published by London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1876 First Edition, first issue
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Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United KingdomPROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP
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Two volumes, hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Brown cloth covers with decorative black paneled decorations to boards, title in decorative gilt to fronts and spines. Brown endpapers. Plain page edges. With extra nicely built half calf leather book cases, with white felt inside. In good conditions. Professionally rebacked, with original spines. Some wear and handling marks to covers; corners and ends of spines rubbed and nicked, corners a little bumped. Some light rubbing to boards. Private bookplate on each front endpaper ( Oliver Brett) Endpapers a little rubbed on edges. Some handling marks and a couple of minor light spots to pages. Else good clean and tight 1st editions. Leather Book case spines a little spine, with some rubbing on edges. 322 & 318pp + 2pp adverts in each vol. Illustrated with 11 full-page B&W plates by G. DU MAURIER. First issue with illustration facing p.148 vol.1 wrongly captioned "two or three individuals" instead of "five or six individuals". The novel was published in an edition of 1,000 copies on April 3, 1876. [Purdy p.20; Sadleir 1107; Wolff 2977].…
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- The Hand of Ethelberta. A Comedy In Chapters. In Two Volumes. With Eleven Illustrations.
- Author
- HARDY,THOMAS:
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- London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1876 First Edition, first issue
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PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP
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T.A. PROCTOR T/A THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP,established 1976. Our shop in Puddletown,Dorset has been open since 1978. We are situated in the heart of the "HARDY COUNTRY", just outside Dorchester on the Road to Bournemouth. Our miscellaneous stock is interesting and changes frequently. We also stock some antique maps (mostly of Dorset) and some engravings of mostly local views. Member of ABA and ILAB.
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