Warne's Coloured Gift Books: Sunday ABC, The House That Jack Built, Children in the Wood, Book of Trades
Language: English
Published by Frederick Warne & Co., London, 1867
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Richard Smith, Aldershot, United KingdomRichard Smith
AbeBooks seller since April 24, 2001
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 163.52
Quantity: 1 available
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4º (245 x 180 mm.), unpaginated, a collection of four books as per main title-page, each with eight pages of illustrations (colour-printed wood engravings by the Leighton Brothers), the first and last books with letterpress on versos, the second and third books with letterpress below the prints and versos blank; thus each book consisting of 16 pages plus an individual half-title. Illustrated boards (Warne's catalogue of Juvenile Gift-Books on lower cover), yellow endpapers, cloth spine. Minor wear to edges of boards, spine worn and splitting at hinge but holding, internally very good and clean. Scarce; only one institutional copy located at the V & A, which is undated and noted as c. 1875.
Seller Inventory # 1189BS
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Warne's Coloured Gift Books: Sunday ABC, The House That Jack Built, Children in the Wood, Book of Trades
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co., London
- Publication year
- 1867
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
Richard Smith
Aldershot, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since April 24, 2001
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Established 1985, trading from several central London locations and book fairs. Now trading from the South Bank Book Market and online. Mainly antiquarian, pre-1900 books, maps and prints.
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Richard Smith
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