THE ART OF LOVE OR NEW LESSONS IN OLD LORE
Published by David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1889
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Tom W. Ayling, Wallingford, United KingdomTom W. Ayling
AbeBooks seller since May 12, 2025
Condition: Used
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First edition, the author's own copy, with his annotations. Three volumes. Bound in the publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt decoration to the covers, lettered in gilt. With a manuscript note by the author explaining the genesis of the book and holograph corrections throughout. A very good set. The extremities of the binding is slightly rubbed. Spines cocked.
Seller Inventory # 2534
Bibliographic details
- Title
- THE ART OF LOVE OR NEW LESSONS IN OLD LORE
- Author
- MAXWELL, Sir Herbert
- Publisher
- David Douglas, Edinburgh
- Publication year
- 1889
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- PROVENANCE: Sir Herbert Eustace Maxwell of Monreith, 7th Bart. (1845–1937), his bookplate pasted to pastedown.
Tom W. Ayling
Wallingford, United Kingdom
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