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The Book of Job.
by JACOBS, Joseph (intro.); FELL, Herbert Granville (illus.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: J.M Dent & Co.; Dodd, Mead, & Co., New York:, 1896. First edition, beautifully illustrated by Herbert Granville Fell (1872-1951), whose work was influenced by the pre-Raphaelite, symbolic, and art nouveau movements. A contemporary review described the volume as"perfection" (The Sketch, p. 3). Joseph Jacobs (18541916) was an historian of Jewish culture, a literary scholar, and one of the most popular 19th-century adapters of children's fairy tales. His introduction emphasises the literary and artistic (rather than the theological) importance of the Book of Job. Quarto. Original cream cloth over bevelled boards, spine and front cover lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt. Woodcut frontispiece and numerous illustrations to text, title page printed in black and red, all by Herbert Granville Fell. Decorative printer's device of Turnbull and Spears, Edinburgh, on last page. Gift inscription dated December 1896 on front free endpaper. Spine toned and gilt dulled in places, scattered marks to cloth, offsetting to endpapers, occasional light foxing to leaves: a very good copy. The Sketch, vol. 16, no. 199, Nov. 1886.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 167456
- Title
- The Book of Job.
- Author
- JACOBS, Joseph (intro.); FELL, Herbert Granville (illus.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: J.M Dent & Co.; Dodd, Mead, & Co., New York:
- Date Published
- 1896
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- New
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- Quarto
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- Device
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Title Page
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