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Epea pteroenta. Or, the Diversions of Purley (Parts I & II)
by TOOKE, John Horne
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for the author, at J. Johnson's, 1805. Hardcover. Fair. Second edition. Two volume set: Part 1 (1798); Part 2 (1805). Quartos, Part 1 illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by W. Sharp, and one additional engraved plate facing p. 454. Full contemporary speckled calf, dark red and black morocco spine labels. Part 1 boards smoked at the fore-edges, front board nearly detached, dampstain to the first and last ten leaves, else good, internal text pages are clean and tight. Part 2 boards and text block a bit warped, with staining from exposure to a fire, thus fair only. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. Both volumes are signed by Bernarda Shahn, with a black & white photograph of a "House built by Jonathan Perkins Weethee, Summer of 1951, before the fire" laid-in. *ESTC* T32791.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 351174
- Title
- Epea pteroenta. Or, the Diversions of Purley (Parts I & II)
- Author
- TOOKE, John Horne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed for the author, at J. Johnson's
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1805
- Keywords
- Philosophy, History
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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- Leaves
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- Tight
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Laid-in
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
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