THE WATER BABIES; A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

Macmillan and Company, 1863

3555,00 €

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(Newburyport, Stati Uniti d'America)

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Anno di pubblicazione

1863

Luogo di stampa

London

Autore

Kingsley

Editori

Macmillan and Company

Edizione

SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN A WONDERFUL BINDING BY BAYNTUN OF BATH.

Lingue

Inglese

Prima edizione

Sì

Descrizione

First edition, without the L'Envoi leaf as is almost always encountered as the author had it removed from all but the first 200 or so copies. With two full page plates by J. Noel Paton and with a number of small illustrations used throughout as opening initials. 8vo, in a very fine and very handsome Bayntun of Bath binding of full navy crushed morocco, the covers decorated with handsome all-over geometric gilt framework tooling, the spine with gilt tooled raised bands separating compartments with matching geometric gilt decorations, two compartments gilt lettered, wide gilt decorated turn-ins and marbled endpapers, a.e.g., The publisher's original green cloth preserved and bound in the rear, the upper piece with central gilt Water Baby vignette, the spine piece gilt lettered. Also retained is the original half-title. Now all in preserved in a blue cloth slipcase with chemise. 350 pp. A very beautiful and very handsome copy, the text wonderfully bright and clean for this title, the fine binding pristine and perfect.