Oxford: Clarendon Press. Fair with No dust jacket as issued. 1926. Hardcover. Ex-school library. Front free endpaper torn out. Front hinge broken, with split to gutter between frontispiece and title leaf. Binding loose, with frontispiece nearly detached. Pencil marginalia. Tears to some leaves, without loss of text.; Book One of Virgil's Aeneid. 1926 reprint of an edition first published in 1920. 133, [1] pages. Blue-green cloth boards. Page dimensions: 165 x 102mm. Latin text, with introduction and notes in English. With illustrations. .

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 17577
Title: Aeneid I [Book One only]
Author: Virgil [Vergil]; edited by J. Jackson
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair with No dust jacket as issued
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Place of Publication: Oxford
Date Published: 1926

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...