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Essays; Read to a Literary Society; At Their Weekly Meetings, within the College, at Glasgow . .
by MOOR, JAMES
- Used
- Condition
- Edges just slightly rubbed; fine copy.
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1759, 1759. First edition. Gaskell, Foulis Press, 372. Edges just slightly rubbed; fine copy.. Small 8vo, contemporary mottled calf, black morocco label, gilt rules, decorations and lettering. Half-title present. Three essays by James Moor, the most substantial of which is an interpretation of Plato's "Dialogue of Cebes" entitled "Essay on the Composition of the Picture Described in the Dialogue of Cebes." Contemporary bookplate of W. Danby on the front paste-down, with his signature above the plate.
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- The Brick Row Book Shop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27061
- Title
- Essays; Read to a Literary Society; At Their Weekly Meetings, within the College, at Glasgow . .
- Author
- MOOR, JAMES
- Format/Binding
- Gaskell, Foulis Press, 372
- Book Condition
- Used - Edges just slightly rubbed; fine copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Glasgow: Printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1759
- Date Published
- 1759
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- Morocco
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Bookplate
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- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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