![]() ![]() Calf Binding material made from cowhide-versatile, durable, usually tan or brown in color, of smooth texture with no or little apparent grain.Broadside Sheet printed on one side, typically for public display, usually larger than folio size (a folio being a broadside-size sheet printed on both sides and folded once, to make four pages).Book-Plate Label, generally affixed to the front pastedown, identifying a book’s owner.Of particular value to collectors as evidence of a very early form of the book. “Original boards” refers to cardboard-like front and back boards, from about 1700 to 1840, used as temporary protection for books before their purchasers would have them bound. Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Near-fine condition, scarce in original cloth. Slight wear to spine ends, Volume II and V with expert reinforcement to text block. The seven "divisions" of this history were meant to be bound by the purchaser in two volumes this set includes appropriate title pages, engraved title pages, and directions for where to bind the plates, which have been bound into the front of each division. ![]() Seven volumes in publisher’s original cloth.Ī detailed history of this very complicated time in Anglo-Indian history, the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857-58, often described as India's First War of Independence. $2000.Įarly edition of Ball’s illustrated history of the Sepoy Mutiny, with two engraved title-pages, seven steel-engraved portraits, 71 steel-engraved views and battle scenes, and two double-page maps of India hand-colored in outline. Quarto, publisher's gilt- and blind-stamped red cloth. London: London Printing and Publishing Company, circa 1875. The History of the Indian Mutiny: Giving a Detailed Account of the Sepoy Insurrection in India. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.BALL’S HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY, ILLUSTRATED WITH BATTLE SCENES, PORTRAITS AND VIEWS OF INDIAīALL, Charles. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. ![]()
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