Nashville TN: Southwestern Publishing House, 1890. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto. 454 pages. Hardcover in red cloth with illustrations in black, with title in gilt on front cover and spine. Binding is spotted, has damping, smudges, and scuffs. Spine is toned, has spotting, white scuffs. Cloth has split and is peeled back at headcap/foot. Front gutter is cracked, cords show. Notation written at top of second front flyleaf. The middle portion of the page has faint pencil marks where something was drawn and erased. Text is foxed. Illustrations throughout.

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Bookseller: Pages Past Used and Rare Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 046943
Title: Character Sketches; or, The Blackboard Mirror
Author: Lofton, George A
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Southwestern Publishing House
Place of Publication: Nashville TN
Date Published: 1890
Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
Weight: 3.50 lbs
Keywords: 1890; George A Lofton; Minister; Christian; 19th Century.
Bookseller catalogs: Ministers; Sermons; Missionaries & Evangelists;

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Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.

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Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...