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Essays in Practical Education. Volumes 1 and 11 only
by Edgeworth, Maria and R L
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: R Hunter and Others, 1822. A new edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. small octavo. Type: Book pp xvii, 396; 488 + drawings. Half bound in red leather with red cloth boards. Excellent marbled end papers and a small armorial book plate, gilt titles and decoration and raised bands to spine. Internally fine, marbled edges.
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- Bookseller
- Strawberry Hill Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 026031
- Title
- Essays in Practical Education. Volumes 1 and 11 only
- Author
- Edgeworth, Maria and R L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- A new edition
- Publisher
- R Hunter and Others
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1822
- Size
- small octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Strawberry Hill Books
Biblio member since 2010
Rotherfield, East Sussex
About Strawberry Hill Books
Strawberry Hill Books is a UK based collectable and antiquarian book dealer with an inventory of 10K titles. Specialist areas include Fiction, Topography, History, Art and Exploration. We supply worldwide and all shipments are tracked.
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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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Half Bound
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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.,...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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