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THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF ... WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF THE KNIGHT FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES
by [Cruikshank, George]: Brough, Robert B.:
Price: $500.00
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: WRCLIT 60429
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London: Longman, Brown [et al], 1858.
Book Description
London: Longman, Brown [et al], 1858.. xx,196pp. Small quarto. Original gilt pictorial crimson cloth. Frontis and 19 plates. Gilt leather bookplate, inner hinges cracking slightly, otherwise an unusually bright, near fine copy. Half morocco slipcase (spine a bit rubbed). First edition in book form, preceded by the serial issue in ten parts beginning in 1857. "The plan of this work [is] ...to illustrate the life of Sir John Falstaff exclusively from the most striking passages in his career, as invented by Shakespeare"... Preface. An uncommonly fine copy of a relatively common and popular book, most often seen rebound (or bound up from parts) or repaired. COHN 96.
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