Ricket Edward Drinks (1 results)
More imagesPublished by London, 1873
- Hardcover
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United KingdomJames M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA.
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Add to basketHard Cover. (London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1873). Third Edition. Publisher's green gilt-decorated cloth, gilt lettering and gilt page edges, 6 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches, 167 pages plus advertisements, yellow printed endpapers. blind-stamped to the back board. Printed in red and black, steel-engraved frontispiece and illustrations. Bo…th sets of end-papers contain advertisements. Armorial book-plate to the front paste-down of the former librettist Charles Willmore Emlyn (1862-1940). The former owner's name is written to the top of the title page and in the same hand there is a short recipe (in black fountain pen) for a bottle of brandy cherries) to page 112. The boards are slightly rubbed and the spine tips a little pushed otherwise a bright and clean VG+ copy with firm hinges and some foxing and staining to the interior. Looks nicer than it sounds. Now housed in a modern acetate cover. Uncommon. Photographs/scans available upon request.
