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The cloister and the hearth : a tale of the Middle Ages.
Title:
The cloister and the hearth : a tale of the Middle Ages.
Author:
Reade, Charles, 1814-1884.
Personal Author:
Edition:
Salesman's sample book.
Publication Information:
Boston ; Paris : printed for the Grolier Society, [1900]
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, 32 unnumbered pages : frontispiece, [20] leaves of plates ; 23 x 15.5 cm
General Note:
Includes two sets of pp. 17-32.

Intended for the use of salesmen seeking to sell the publisher's Edition de Luxe of Reade's novels.

Frontispiece of the author engraved by C. A. Walker ; illustrations from several different Reade works on plate leaves by Frank T. Merrill ; all protected by captioned tissue.
Language:
English
Local Note:
Salesman's sample book, 1900 : The volume is bound in grayish-green fabric over boards. Each bound endpaper bears a pasted-down sample spine for the Edition de Luxe, either in grayish-green fabric (front) or in dark brown morocco (back).
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Format :
Book