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PLEASE NOTE: THIS BOOK IS A LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF WHICH 500 WERE PRINTED. THIS COPY DOES NOT HAVE A NUMBER!!! VERY RARE gilded & embossed illustrated hardcover book, sorry no dust-jacket. "A Gentleman-at-Arms" By Herbert Strang. Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo and T. H. Robinson. This is a Limited First Edition, published by Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1914. Thick & heavy book. PLEASE NOTE: As this book is heavy (over 1.2 Kg), if you are buying this from outside the U.K. please expect additional shipping costs. 8vo, 22.4 cm x 16 cm x 5.2 cm, Cream cloth-covered boards, Gilt embossed lettering & decoration on spine and front cover, Decorated end papers, Unevenly sized & rough-cut pages, Tissue-guarded colour inlaid illustrations on plates. 387 pages. Weight: 1.238 Kg (1238 Grams). CONTENTS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION!!! However, there are several cracks between pages throughout the book. Spine is grubby, marked and discoloured, damp damage & fading at tail, bumped & scuffed either end, gilt in lettering & decoration mostly worn away and turned green. Cover is also rather grubby & marked, cloth a little loose alongside spine both sides, gilt & decoration fine but dull & slightly worn away in places, edges marked & worn. Corners are bumped & scuffed, one is frayed. Faint marks & writing indents on front end papers, with slight damage at head of spine area. Ink annotation on reverse of 1st end paper, small ink transfer to first title page. Some pages (very few) have faint smudges mostly in margins, and/or corner folds, and/or creasing/fold alongside spine area, and/or light handling creases, and/or tiny edge nicks/tears. Pages xiii and adjacent page are still attached to each other at vertical edge. Page 35/36 has a fold on vertical edge. Small sticker on reverse of last page. Light age tanning & occasional foxing throughout. VERY RARE BOOK, BEAUTIFUL INSIDE!!! Full title: "A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight, as Related by Himself in the Year 1641 and Now Set Forth by Herbert Strang". With a colour Frontispiece and 7 colour illustration inlaid on plates by Cyrus Cuneo, and numerous black & white drawings by T. H. Robinson. Contents: -Introductory. -The First Part: Christopher Rudd's Adventure in Hispaniola, and the Strange Story of Captain Q. -The Second Part: Christopher Rudd's Adventure in France, and His Borrowing of the White Plume of Henry of Navarre. -The Third Part: Christopher Rudd's Adventure in the Low Countries, and His Quaint Device of the Silver Shot. -The Fourth Part: Christopher Rudd's Adventure in Spain, and the Fashion in Which He Played the Part of a Physician. -The Fifth Part: Christopher Rudd's Adventure in Ireland, and the Manner of His Winning a Wife. -Postcript. IN STOCK in the UK!!! We post the same day, or if that's not possible, the very next working day. Seller's Ref: 331-A. Seller Inventory # ABE-8662126393
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