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Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
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FIRST EDITION (1887), small 4to, 235 x 185 mm, 9¼ x 7 inches, cloth backed cream boards with coloured illustration of 3 children watching a cuckoo clock, coloured vignette of small child lying in a meadow on lower cover, floral endpapers, 64 pages. Chromolitho frontispiece, title page and 21 very pretty chromolitho plates of young children all by Harriet M. Bennett. Numerous very pretty sepia text illustrations also by her. Expertly recased and restitched, preserving the original endpapers, spine slightly rubbed at head and tail and slightly marked, corners slightly worn with tiny loss of surface at tips, small crack to surface paper on upper cover next to head of spine, no loss, free endpapers slightly browned, occasional small pale mark to margins, otherwise contents very nice. A very good tight bright copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 48397
Title: ALL ROUND THE CLOCK.
Publisher: London Griffith Farran & Co. lithographed & printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg
Publication Date: 1887
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION (1887), small 4to, 235 x 185 mm, 9¼ x 7 inches, cloth backed cream boards with coloured illustration of 3 children watching a cuckoo clock, coloured vignette of small child lying in a meadow on lower cover, floral endpapers, 64 pages. Chromolitho frontispiece, title page and 21 very pretty chromolitho plates of young children all by Harriet M. Bennett. Numerous very pretty sepia text illustrations, some full page, also by her. Spine cloth slightly rubbed, corners very slightly worn, a few small light scratches to upper cover, lower cover a little dusty, free endpapers slightly browned, red ink inscription to front pastedown (see image), small split to endpaper fold at lower edge, half-title lightly foxed, some margins lightly marked or faintly foxed, otherwise contents very nice, 3 inner joints cracked, binding tight and sound. A very good copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 46695
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Seller: Roger Middleton P.B.F.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION (1887), small 4to, 235 x 185 mm, 9¼ x 7 inches, cloth backed cream boards with coloured illustration of 3 children watching a cuckoo clock, coloured vignette of small child lying in a meadow on lower cover, floral endpapers, 64 pages. Chromolitho frontispiece, title page and 21 very pretty chromolitho plates of young children all by Harriet M. Bennett. Numerous very pretty sepia text illustrations also by her. Expertly recased and restitched, preserving the original endpapers, spine slightly rubbed at head and tail and slightly marked, corners slightly worn with tiny loss of surface at tips, small crack to surface paper on upper cover next to head of spine, no loss, free endpapers slightly browned, occasional small pale mark to margins, otherwise contents very nice. A very good tight bright copy. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE. FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST. Seller Inventory # 49761
Quantity: 1 available