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1872 Poems of Thomas Hood Birket Foster Engravings Full Leather & Gilt 2 x Vols
REF: ES1577-S6 / LA476962
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Description
Poems of Thomas Hood
Two Volumes Bound in One
Illustrated with Birket Foster Engravings
Published by E. Moxon, Son & Co, London 1872
Hardback volume bound in a full leather binding by George Rutland of Newcastle on Tyne, thick gilt decorated boards & inner dentelles, marbled endpapers & page edges gilt, frontis engraving to volume one, separate title page & page count to volume two, numerous fine full page vignette steel engravings throughout.
The book measures approx 11" x 9 inches
measurements
Height:
11 in
Width:
9 in
declaration
Elder Books & Collectables has clarified that the 1872 Poems of Thomas Hood Birket Foster Engravings Full Leather & Gilt 2 x Vols (LA476962) is genuinely of the period declared with the date/period of manufacture being 1872
condition
Some very minor rubbing to leather cover, private bookplate to inner front board, large scribble in pen by a child to front blank endpaper with a further scribble to bottom page margins of page 80-81 in volume one, very occasional minor mark to pages otherwise a superb copy with gilt to cover bright, binding tight & majority of text pages clean.
additional info
Date of Manufacture:
1872
location
This 1872 Poems of Thomas Hood Birket Foster Engravings Full Leather & Gilt 2 x Vols is located in Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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