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.

Illustrator Groesbeck gained fame later as a story-board sketch artist for Cecil B. It contains 13 full-page line cuts, printed in orange and black, one opposite each stanza, with an additional illustration in the corner of each page of text. This present edition is the first separate hardbound edition and the first to be fully illustrated. In 1901 it was published separately in pamphlet form, and a year later in the anthology A Treasury of Humorous Poetry. This classic American poem first appeared in an 1888 issue of the San Francisco Examiner, and was popularized by the stage performances of actor DeWolfe Hopper. Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst separate edition in boards, and the first edition to be illustrated, of this classic of American popular poetry, with 13 full-page line-cuts. Small octavo, original pictorial green paper boards. 'SOMEWHERE IN THIS FAVOURED LAND THE SUN IS SHINING BRIGHT…': FIRST HARDBOUND EDITION OF THIS LEGENDARY BASEBALL POEM AND THE FIRST TO BE ILLUSTRATED

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