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Published by The Mask, 1868
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
First Edition
1st edition. Pages are generally clean, but otherwise in horrible condition. Folding frontis to most months worn & discoloured at edges; binding very weak. Yellow cloth badly stained & discoloured, with 2 holes on front board, wear to spine & board corners, & detached from boards. Back board a little misshapen. Horrid to look at, but scarce Used - Acceptable. Poor hardback.
Published by The Mask, Office, London, Printed by The National Steam Printing Company
Seller: Berry Hill Book Shop, Deansboro, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1868, First Edition, Very Good/no dj, quarto (7.5"x10.5"), 375pp., marbled boards hardcover, brown cloth backstrip with bright gold lettering, corners worn, edges of covers shelf-worn, fraying & short tears along exterior hinge cloth but binding tight, yellow glossy endpapers, complete volume 1: February to December 1868 bound together, full-page b&w humorous illustrations throughout, complete with 12 large (10.5"x14") fold-out engravings, plates all intact, minor foxing o/w text & plates clean & unmarked, great example of English 19th century wit and humor covering all aspects of its society.
Published by Published at the Mask Office, London, 1868
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
vi, 375 pp. Illustrated from engravings (some folding). Folio, quarter morocco over marbled boards; bound from the original parts with some illustrated original wrappers bound in. First edition. Contents fine; spine sunned with light rubbing to the extremities of the binding.
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 4to, 3/4 leather, patterned boards, 6 raised compartments at spine with curlicues and gilt titling, 376pp, complete in 11 issues. It folded after that. 376pp, clean with almost no foxing, 7 orig. covers bound in at rear with 14pp of adds on different paper. index and editors intro bound in front, innumerable b&w illus, some fold-out, a classic humor mag, with the name tag of the Victorian painter Edward Armitage & written on the first blank in pencil "Mansfield?? Mackenzies copy bought at his sale" one of the prizes from the golden age of English caricature.vvcl2/1.