HOOD, THOMAS, 1799-1845 / DORE, GUSTAVE 1832-1883.
Select Poems Of Thomas Hood. With Illustrations by Gustave Dore.
London : Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co, Warwick House, Salisbury Square, [ c. 1891 ] . 0. A very good original Victorian binding. 13.50" x 9.75" x 0.5". [4pp.]/pp.68 plus 6 full-page engravings. Blue cloth coverd boards, with gilt titles and decoration to the front board. Just a couple of small bumps and blemishes, corners carefully strengthened, and gilt rubbed. Original brown endpapers. Six steel-engraved plates. Plate before "The Haunted House" carefully trimmed and laid-down to matching card. All plates drawn by Gustave Doré engraved by: J. Godfrey; Lumb Stocks A.R.A.; J. Sadler; W. Ridgway; J. Godfrey; and G. C. Finden. Light foxing to margins of all of the engravings. Clear English text on lightly toned paper, with a few brown spots and blemishes. VG. ** Date of publication assumed after 1891: "In 1891, James Bowden came in to a three-way partnership. He had started working at Ward and Lock in 1869 and after he became a partner, the company became Ward, Lock and Bowden. "By the last decade on the 19th century, Messrs. Ward, Lock and Bowden were an important name on the publishing scene." - See Liveing, Edward George Downing (1954). Adventure in publishing; the House of Ward Lock, 1854-1954. London: Ward, Lock. p. 57.
Chilton Books
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GBP 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 118.75 US$ 127.48 | JP¥ 20049]
Keywords: 52075 Alfred Tennyson Baron Ward, Lock, Bowden & Co. Elaine Poetry Dore Illustrated Poetry: : 19th Century