Brent Hall, Margaret Blount — Dicks Tales Edition

£34.95

Brent Hall, Margaret Blount — Dicks Tales Edition

Name: Brent Hall, Margaret Blount — Dicks Tales Edition
Brand: Broadhursts Books
SKU: 3158-RM-G-3
Price: 34.95 GBP
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Condition

Good: Publisher’s original half-leather binding shows moderate shelf wear, with bumping and rubbing to the leather corner tips, raised spine bands, and tail of the spine. Cloth-covered boards display scattered marks and age-related staining, though remain structurally sound overall. Text block shows dust marking and age-toning consistent with the book’s age, though the moiré patterning to the page edges remains visible and reasonably well-preserved. Moiré pastedowns and endpapers remain particularly attractive and well-kept. Binding firm and secure. Internally, moderate foxing present throughout, though contents remain clean overall and tightly bound. Illustrations clean and well-preserved throughout.

Description

Dicks Tales Edition published by John Dicks, London, undated. A scarce Victorian popular fiction edition by Margaret Blount, illustrated with fifteen plates by F. Gilbert. Nineteenth-century Dicks editions are increasingly uncommon in intact original bindings, particularly examples retaining decorative materials such as moiré endpapers and page-edge treatments.

A melodramatic Victorian sensation novel combining romance, intrigue, and domestic drama, characteristic of the inexpensive illustrated fiction issued for the expanding nineteenth-century popular readership.

Book Condition: Good

Book Authors: Margaret Blount

Book Publisher: John Dicks

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Classic Fiction

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Signed: No

Book Pages: 122

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Book Binding: Leather

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Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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