MUSA PEDESTRIS Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes 1536 - 1896
Hardcover
1896 · Np
by [Farmer] No author stated
Np: Privately printed for subscribers only, 1896. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes 1536 - 1896. Np: Privately printed for subscribers only, 1896. Collected and annotated by John S. Farmer. B/w decorative head & tail pieces. 251 pp. Hardcover. Small 8vo size. 3/4 blue leather over cloth. 5 raised bands, gilt lettering in compartments, boards ruled in gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker. Minor bumping and rubbing to extremities. Pressure points lightly scuffed. Spine slightly sunned. Small, non obtrusive abrasion on front board. Edges and pages lightly yellowed with few, faint scattered stains. Bookplate to front paste-down. Overall quite good, boards & text clean, binding tight. Very good/. (Oversized - extra shipping charges apply) (Inventory #: 29812)