Becket and Other Plays
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Sorn, East Ayrshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co Limited, 1888. 1st Edition. Green Boards. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 411pp; A lovely copy. Appears to be a first edition. Gilt embossed lettering to the spine and bound in original publishers cloth. Frontispiece plate with tissue guard. The cloth at the head and tail of the spine is lightly turned in and there is light rubbing to the head of the spine. Slight spots of fading to the tail of the front board. Pencil name signature to the front end paper. One unopened page and slight finger soiling to the half title page. Foxing to the tissue guard with light mottling to the title page. The book is clean and tight. A very good copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Trumpington Fine Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 216018
- Title
- Becket and Other Plays
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Format/Binding
- Green Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾&quo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- LITERATURE
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
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- Title Page
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- Unopened
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
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