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Published by Taylor And Henderson, Aberdeen, 1894
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Idiots Hill Book Company, Denton, TX, U.S.A.Idiots Hill Book Company
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Good
US$ 130.00
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Full page plates throughout. Hand-laid paper. Edges untrimmed. Frontis w tissue guard of Queen Victoria with facsimile signature. Features 105 pp. of full-page, wonderfully graphic bw advertisements divided between front and rear of book. A substantial, heavy volume. Free of marks. Brown…cloth boards with gilt decorations and titles. Spine also decorated. Backstrip worn, and pulling away for 4" at head. Corners curled. Hinge break at several places throughout, where signature strings show, although volume remains structurally sound. Pages are clean and quite bright, free of foxing, due to the high quality paper.
More imagesPublished by Taylor and Henderson, Aberdeen, 1894
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Old Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA, Brackley, United KingdomOld Hall Bookshop, ABA ILAB PBFA BA
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Very good
US$ 111.37
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Add to basketGilt-decorated Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket As Published. First Edition. pp1-56A adverts, 214pp, pp57-104 adverts, photogravure portrait of Queen Victoria, with tissue, and 43 black & white illustrations by various artists, including Sir Edmund Burne Jones, Sir Frederick Leighton and G…ustave Dore, includes a history of Crathie parish church and an account of the laying of a foundation stone for a new church by Queen Victoria on September 11th 1893, and a title page with the title "Book of the Bazaar, September 4th and 5th 1894", articles and poems by various authors, including the Marquis of Lorne, The Duchess of Sutherland, Jerome K Jerome and Rudyard Kipling, free endpapers tanned, original gilt-decorated green cloth with bevelled edges, gilt spine lettering and lettering to upper board, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, binding a little loose with weak front joint, otherwise a very good copy. A handsome volume to raise funds for the new Crathie Church. It shows how an association with royalty attracts a wide variety of support. Size: Quarto. Sir Edmund Burne Jones, Sir Frederick Leighton, Gustave Dore and Others (illustrator). Miscellany.
