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A Legend of Cloth Fair. [LEGEND].

£250.00

BOUND BY RAMAGE

A Legend of Cloth Fair: And Other Tales. Illustrated by Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne].

Engraved frontispiece and four plates.

First Edition. Small 8vo. [169 x 105 x 21 mm]. [2]ff, 300pp. Bound c.1900 by Ramage (signed with an inked pallet on the front endleaf) in brown goatskin, the front cover tooled in gilt with a fillet border enclosing a display of leafy stems with five red goatskin onlaid rose heads, the rear cover with a gilt and blind fillet border. The spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second and third and dated at the foot, the others with gilt compartments and a central leaf tool, the turn-ins tooled with a gilt roll, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (The joints a little rubbed and the covers slightly bowed).

London: [William Stevens for] J.W. Southgate, 1840

Short tears at inner margin of the Contents and a few spots.

Stock no. ebc3339

BOUND BY RAMAGE

A Legend of Cloth Fair: And Other Tales. Illustrated by Phiz [Hablot Knight Browne].

Engraved frontispiece and four plates.

First Edition. Small 8vo. [169 x 105 x 21 mm]. [2]ff, 300pp. Bound c.1900 by Ramage (signed with an inked pallet on the front endleaf) in brown goatskin, the front cover tooled in gilt with a fillet border enclosing a display of leafy stems with five red goatskin onlaid rose heads, the rear cover with a gilt and blind fillet border. The spine divided into six panels, lettered in the second and third and dated at the foot, the others with gilt compartments and a central leaf tool, the turn-ins tooled with a gilt roll, marbled endleaves, gilt edges. (The joints a little rubbed and the covers slightly bowed).

London: [William Stevens for] J.W. Southgate, 1840

Short tears at inner margin of the Contents and a few spots.

Stock no. ebc3339