COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE: Accurately Printed From the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Stevens, ESQ./With a Memoir
by Shakespeare, William/Steevens, George/Chalmers, Alexander (Memoir)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884. 816 pp. Original brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding lightly soiled and rubbed. Corners and spine ends a bit bumped w/ light wear to bottom corner of rear cover. Light scattered foxing. Mild insect damage to bottom corner of front paste-down, and bottom edge of front blank endpaper. Edges of leaves age toned. Includes 5 steel engravings, including a nice portrait of Shakespeare.. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6838
- Title
- COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE: Accurately Printed From the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Stevens, ESQ./With a Memoir
- Author
- Shakespeare, William/Steevens, George/Chalmers, Alexander (Memoir)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- J. B. Lippincott & Company
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, PA
- Date Published
- 1884
- Keywords
- LITERATURE SHAKESPEARE WILLIAM 1564 1616 ENGLISH POETS PLAYWRIGHTS COMPLETE WORKS PLAYS OTHELLO HAMLET ROMEO AND JULIET TEMPEST TWELFTH NIGHT MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT'S DREAM LOVE'S LABOR'S LOST MERCHANT OF VENICE LITERARY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Shakespeare; Plays;
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- 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...
- 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....
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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