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The English Humourists Of the Eighteenth Century : the Four Georges Etc.
by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
MacMillan and Co, 1904. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1904. No Edition Remarks. 420 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and illustrated plates throughout. There is also black and white illustrations throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper and heavier tanning to text block edges. Pencil inscriptions to rear endpaper and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Boards have visible rubbing, sunning and edge wear. Fair crushing to spine ends and major sunning to spine.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1646741193MHP
- Title
- The English Humourists Of the Eighteenth Century : the Four Georges Etc.
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co
- Date Published
- 1904
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
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