The Epicurean
Book Description
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts. 1856.
Hardback – full leather with gilt decoration to spine, boards and edges; page-block all edges gilt. xii, 210pp, [2] publisher’s catalogue. 7 x 5 inches approx. (180mm x 123mm).
Binding rubbed and worn to extremities and hinges; boards a little bumped to corners. Signs of bookplate removed to front paste-down, some splitting to front endpaper hinge; some age tanning and dustiness to pages but generally very clean.
Overall, showing wear otherwise remaining a reasonably nice example of a Hayday binding.
Dealer Notes
Inner board with binder’s stamp ‘Bound by Hayday’.
Author
Thomas Moore
Date
1856
Other books
If you liked the book you've just seen, you might be interested in other books from the same dealer below.
Don Whillans Portrait of a Mountaineer
Don Whillans and Alick Ormerod
William Heinemann
£35.00
Offered by D B Derbyshire Bookseller
The Life And Travels Of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh
George Copway
C. Gilpin
£125.00
Offered by D B Derbyshire Bookseller
Festival at Farbridge
J. B. Priestley
William Heinemann Ltd / Studley Press
£45.00
Offered by D B Derbyshire Bookseller
Green Bays - Verses and Parodies
Q [Arthur Quiller-Couch]
£7.50
Offered by D B Derbyshire Bookseller
Friends of the PBFA
For £10 get free entry to our fairs, updates from the PBFA and more.
Please email info@pbfa.org for more information