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A BRIEFE TREATISE OF TESTAMENTS AND LAST WILS, VERY PROFITABLE TO BE UNDERSTOOD OF ALL THE SUBJECTS OF THIS REALME OF ENGLAND, (DESIROUS TO KNOW, WHETHER, WHEREOF, AND HOW, THEY MAY MAKE THEIR TESTAMENTS: AND BY WHAT MEANS THE FAME MAY BE EFFECTED OR HINDERED) AND NO LESSE ACCEPTABLE, ALWELL FOR THE RARENESSE OF THE WORK, AS FOR THE EASINESS OF THE STYLE AND METHOD
by Swinburne, Henry
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Rockville, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: I.L. for the Company of Stationers, 1640. Second Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6 3/8 in x 8 1/2 in), [24], 344 pages, 215 pages, [30]; Fair; Fully bound leather with banded spine; Boards have blind-tooling along edges and moderate shelfwear overall with bumping to corners, wear/cracking along edges, toning and cracking to covers, cracking along ridges (front cover detached), moderate+ wear to spine with chipping to head (with loss of material), rubbing to bands, and cracking throughout; Textblock shows light to moderate creasing, toning to edges and interior throughout, occasional light+ water damage; Missing last three pages per ESTC. RWO. ETSC 006189427. 1364896. Special Collections.
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- Bookseller
- Second Story Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1364896
- Title
- A BRIEFE TREATISE OF TESTAMENTS AND LAST WILS, VERY PROFITABLE TO BE UNDERSTOOD OF ALL THE SUBJECTS OF THIS REALME OF ENGLAND, (DESIROUS TO KNOW, WHETHER, WHEREOF, AND HOW, THEY MAY MAKE THEIR TESTAMENTS: AND BY WHAT MEANS THE FAME MAY BE EFFECTED OR HINDERED) AND NO LESSE ACCEPTABLE, ALWELL FOR THE RARENESSE OF THE WORK, AS FOR THE EASINESS OF THE STYLE AND METHOD
- Author
- Swinburne, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- I.L. for the Company of Stationers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1640
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About the Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA
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Rockville, Maryland
About Second Story Books, ABAA
DC's Oldest Rare and Used Bookstore, Second Story Books operates two open shops in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area. We have a large internet presence including this website, Amazon, and Ebay, accredited appraisals member ASA, and an in house book binder. For more information go to www.secondstorybooks.com
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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