Essays of Elia
by Charles Lamb
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: MacMillan and Co., 1894. This book in fine binding was a school prize awarded at University of Oxford 1895; Nut colored full polished leather, gilt spine title on black label, raised bands & full gilt spine decoration, handsome university emblem to cover, gilt borders shadowed in blind, gilt to edge of boards, all edges marbled, endpapers / pastdown marbled, & foxed award note attached inside front cover; A very good copy with tiny loss head of spine; 425 pages.. 4.5"x6.75".
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Details
- Bookseller
- White Raven Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CM6220
- Title
- Essays of Elia
- Author
- Charles Lamb
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MacMillan and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1894
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature to 1900;
- Size
- 4.5"x6.75"
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About the Seller
White Raven Books
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Ypsilanti, Michigan
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- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...