The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts (6th impression)/ The Art of Contentment (1st edition): The Government of the Tongue (1st edition)
by Allestree, Richard (1621-1681)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Oxford, England: At the Theatre in Oxford Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. Three volumes bound together in one arranged in reverse chronological order - 1693, 1675, and 1674; bound in tan calf with gold lettering on the spine which has worn away to illegibility; two women's names in contemporary hand appear on the title page of The Ladies Calling and one of those names reappears on the title page of The Government of the Tongue; spine strip appears to have been reattached; text block is solid and clean but page edges of the three volumes have age toned to different degrees; nevertheless a solid, clean, collectible copy. 0.
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- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007453
- Title
- The Ladies Calling: In Two Parts (6th impression)/ The Art of Contentment (1st edition): The Government of the Tongue (1st edition)
- Author
- Allestree, Richard (1621-1681)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- At the Theatre in Oxford
- Place of Publication
- Oxford, England
- Keywords
- Conduct Books
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- 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....
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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...