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The Claims of Labour - An Essay on the Duties of the Employers to the Employed - To Which is Added an Essay on the Means of Improving the Health and Increasing the Comfort of the Labouring Classes
by [Helps, Sir Arthur]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: William Pickering, 1845. vii, [1], 288pp, later full calf, raised bands, spine in six panels, leather title label to second panel, remaining panels with volute corner pieces and flower heads to centres, covers with single fillet bordering a blind seed head roll and flower corner pieces, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled. Slightly rubbed to extremities, some minor discolouring to head of lower cover. Head of ffep and reverse of front marbled endpaper water stained, previous owners' name to reverse of front marbled endpaper, otherwise quite bright and clean. Kress C6620; Goldsmiths 34375; Keynes, page 70 and Einaudi 2873. Second Edition. Full Calf. Good+. 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- Zetetic Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000743
- Title
- The Claims of Labour - An Essay on the Duties of the Employers to the Employed - To Which is Added an Essay on the Means of Improving the Health and Increasing the Comfort of the Labouring Classes
- Author
- [Helps, Sir Arthur]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- William Pickering
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1845
- Size
- 12mo
- Keywords
- Labour, Noisbn, Cat II, Ebay
- Bookseller catalogs
- Nineteenth Century; Politics; Economics;
Terms of Sale
Zetetic Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Zetetic Books
Biblio member since 2015
Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
About Zetetic Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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