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A General Catalogue of Books Arranged in Classes, Offered for Sale by Bernard Quaritch
by Bernard Quaritch Ltd
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Covers detached and split along joints into separate boards and spine, covers in any case worn and stained. Contents Good
- Seller
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LONDON, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bernard Quaritch, London, first edition, 1868. Half leather, raised bands, gilt spine titles, edges marbled, marbled endpapers, thick 8vo,. viii, 1130 pp. Over 14,701 entries. A wonderful catalogue. After the main catalogue of 933 pages, arranged by subject, comes nearly 100 pages of "latest purchases" which includes a "choice selection" from the stock of H G Bohn, Quaritch's great rival who had recently retired. There is an appendix of 24 pages of books wanted for purchase; and an index of 50 pages arranged in 3 columns of extremely small print. In the introduction to his 1870 catalogue Quaritch noted that it had been found too laborious and expensive to repeat the effort of creating such a complete index, and the later catalogue has a much abbreviated one. Covers detached and split along joints into separate boards and spine, covers in any case worn and stained. Contents Good.
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- Bookseller
- Wykeham Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIBLIO-46710
- Title
- A General Catalogue of Books Arranged in Classes, Offered for Sale by Bernard Quaritch
- Author
- Bernard Quaritch Ltd
- Format/Binding
- Half leather, raised bands, gilt spine titles, edges marbled, marbled endpapers, thick 8vo,
- Book Condition
- Used - Covers detached and split along joints into separate boards and spine, covers in any case worn and stained. Contents Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Bernard Quaritch, London, first edition, 1868
- Date Published
- 1868
- Pages
- viii, 1130 pp
- Keywords
- Bernard Quaritch Limited book trade booksellers catalogues
- Bookseller catalogs
- Book Trade;
Terms of Sale
Wykeham Books
Prices are net, and postage and insurance (if required) are extra. Books sent overseas will normally be despatched by surface mail at printed paper rate unless air mail is requested. Terms: We accept payment by bank (wire) transfer (all bank charges payable by the purchaser) or PayPal. Alternatively we accept cash or cheques in UK Pounds (payable to Wykeham Books) drawn on a UK bank account. Prices are net, and postage and insurance (if required) are extra. For overseas orders, any applicable sales or value added tax, or customs duties, or administration charges for the collection thereof, are payable by the purchaser on importation. Books may be returned within 10 days of receipt if not as described.
About the Seller
Wykeham Books
Biblio member since 2005
LONDON, Aberdeen
About Wykeham Books
We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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....
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