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VERY RARE gilded & embossed illustrated hardcover book, sorry no dust-jacket. "The English Illustrated Magazine - Volume XII, October 1894 to March 1895". By various Authors & Illustrators. This is the First Edition, published by The Illustrated London Press, Limited, 1895. Thick & heavy book. PLEASE NOTE: As this book is heavy (over 1.6 Kg with packaging), if you are buying this from outside the U.K. please expect additional shipping costs. 8vo, 24.7 cm x 17.5 cm x 4.2 cm, Red leather-bound spine with gilt embossed lettering, Red textured (branch motif) cloth-covered boards, All edges dyed mottled red. Approx. 662 pages. Weight: 1.5 Kg. (1500 Grams). CONTENTS ARE ALMOST LIKE NEW!!! However, there is some damage to spine where leather is very scuffed, brittle & worn, some loss at head & tail, small rip on front cover & in middle of spine, binding remains tight! Cover is discoloured & faded, some marks, bumps & scratches, edges worn & bumped. Corners are bumped & frayed, boards exposed on 2 of them. End papers slightly marked & creased front & rear of book. Crack forming from tail up & splits in paper in between front pastedown & end paper which is missing tiny piece from bottom edge. Page 101/102 is missing small corner piece, this page and the next few are more smudged than others. Some pages (very few) have corners folds/creases and/or slight rippling, and/or smudges/marks mostly in margins, and/or edge tears/bumps, and/or damp stain on bottom edge. Splits in paper in between last end paper & pastedown. Light age tanning & occasional foxing throughout, more pronounced on end papers. VERY OLD & RARE MAGAZINE, BEAUTIFUL INSIDE!!! Another great volume of The English Illustrated Magazine, a Victorian Literature magazine, containing numerous articles, stories, songs and poetry. Richly illustrated witrh a colour Frontispiece and many black & white illustrations such as beautiful drawings, engravings, facsimiles of documents, diagrams, maps and photographs (full page & amongst text). Included in this volume are: "The House with the Broken Shutter" by Gilbert Parker; "Malachi" by Gilbert Parker with Illustrations by Lancelot Speed; "The Man and the Town - The Marquis of Bute and Cardiff"; "Moorland Idylls - The Night-Jar" by Grant Allen; "The Benefit of the Doubt" by Violet Hunt, Illustrations by Raymond Potter; "On Chloris Walking in the Snow" by William Strode, Illustration by Gilbert James; "Clarissa" by Robert Sauber; "The Decree of Duke Deodonato" by Anthony Hope with Illustrations by Dudley Hardy; "Jack Smith-Boy" by Max Pemberton with Illustrations by Gordon Browne; "Isabella and the Pot of Basil" by C. E. Halle; "The Little Fiddler" by Louis B. Tisdale with illustrations by A. Forestier; "Midsummer Madness" by George Gissing with Illustrations by Frank Craig; "The Tryst" by A. M. Bulloch, with Illustrations by A. L. Bowley; and much more! We have other volumes of The English Illustrated Magazine available, so please check our listings, thank you! IN STOCK in the UK!!! We post the same day, or if that's not possible, the very next working day. Seller's Ref: 334-B. Seller Inventory # ABE-8836543064
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