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British Poets - The Poetical Works of Akenside and Beattie
by Mark Akenside & James Beattie (bios by Alexander Dyce)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No DJ
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
Riverside Edition. Two volumes in one. Good+ HC, no DJ. Dark maroon cloth over boards with gilt stamped titles; top edge gilt; light brown end papers; tissue-guarded frontispiece in each volume; ribbon marker. Clean, square covers and spine; slightly rubbed at spine ends; tightly bound; very clean interior; slight age darkening at page edges - leaves remain supple. Includes short bios of each by Alexander Dyce (110 & 76 pp). 12mo, 769 pp (paged 454 + 239 plus bios).
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- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6480
- Title
- British Poets - The Poetical Works of Akenside and Beattie
- Author
- Mark Akenside & James Beattie (bios by Alexander Dyce)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton, Osgood and Company. Boston
- Date Published
- 1878
- Keywords
- LITERATURE, BRITAIN, POETRY, Akenside, Beattie, POETS, VERSE, POEMS, POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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