Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (two volumes)
by Samuel Richardson
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1862. Hardcover. Very Good. Half leather binding of the first Tauchnitz edition of Richardson's groundbreaking 1748 novel. Complete in four volumes, bound as two. Half leather with marbled boards, matching marbling to end papers and page edges. Previous owner's bookplate to end-papers. Some mild toning to spine. Light rubbing to leather and marking. Contents clean and binding tight. Very good.
Synopsis
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, and is one of the longest novels in the English language.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008142
- Title
- Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (two volumes)
- Author
- Samuel Richardson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bernhard Tauchnitz
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1862
- Keywords
- leather_binding, fiction, literature, novel,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bindings;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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AJ Scruffles
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Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
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Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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...