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The Curious Book
by [ANECDOTES]. [Anonymous]
- Used
- Condition
- Some smudges and stains in the text; very good copy.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826, 1826. First edition. OCLC records ten copies (including a second or variant issue). Some smudges and stains in the text; very good copy.. 8vo, later green half calf, green cloth boards, red morocco label, gilt decorations and lettering, t.e.g., others untrimmed. Half-title and errata leaf present. A collection of almost 90 literary anecdotes, including ones about Burns, Byron, Shelley, Boswell and John Gay, interspersed with occasional miscellaneous pieces, such as the account of the "Hungry Poet" with two of his poems. Almost all the pieces are unsigned, but at least two are attributed: A. Cunningham on the last moments of Roberts Burns and Walter Scott on the "Character of Lord Byron." There was a variant or probably second issue, with the title augmented slightly to The Curious Book; or, Literary Relics.
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- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26426
- Title
- The Curious Book
- Author
- [ANECDOTES]. [Anonymous]
- Format/Binding
- OCLC records ten copies (including a second or variant issue)
- Book Condition
- Used - Some smudges and stains in the text; very good copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Edinburgh: Printed by John Pillans for John Thomson; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, London, 1826
- Date Published
- 1826
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About the Seller
The Brick Row Book Shop
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San Francisco, California
About The Brick Row Book Shop
The Brick Row Book Shop, founded in 1915, is one of the oldest antiquarian book firms in the United States. We're located a block from Union Square in downtown San Francisco, and are open by appointment Monday-Friday. The engraving by T. Diedricksen is of the Shop as it was shortly after its founding in New Haven, Connecticut.
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- Cloth
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- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- 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...
- First Edition
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