From Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 15 January 2008
About this Item
New Edition C1876. An early 'Yellowback style book' A yellowback is a cheap novel or book which was published in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. Developed in the 1840s to compete with the "penny dreadful", yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading. They had brightly coloured covers, often printed by chromoxylography, that were attractive to a new class of readers, thanks to the spread of education and rail travel. Routledge was one of the first publishers to begin marketing yellow-backs by starting their "Railway Library" in 1848. The series included 1,277 titles, published over 50 years. These mainly consisted of stereotyped reprints of novels originally published as cloth editions. By the late 19th century quite a few publishers were issuing their own versions of yellow-backs eg Chatto and Windus, Smith Elder,Longmans, Ward Lock. They included sensational fiction, adventure stories, "educational" manuals, handbooks, and cheap biographies. Book is good++ and quite bright. Edges and surface quite rubbed in places. Light loss to some edges. Spine and board re cased retaining some of the original cloth and endpapers. Corners rounded. Contents quite good. Pages a little age toned. Slight tape ghosting to endapers. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 17939. Seller Inventory # 027371
Bibliographic Details
Title: Fairer Than A Fairy
Publisher: Routledge, UK
Publication Date: 1876
Binding: Cloth
Condition: Good
Edition: New Edition
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