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The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
by Galt, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1846. Third Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. xx, 432 pages. Hardcover bound in full tree calf with raised bands with black and brown labels on the spine and gilt tooling in the compartments. The front hinge is starting to weaken. Green marbled endpapers. A sound copy with a sturdy text block. Portrait frontis. The text is a bit toned but clean. Third Edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051312
- Title
- The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
- Author
- Galt, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- David Bogue, Fleet Street
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1846
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1846; John Galt; Life; Cardinal Wolsey; Church of England; English History; Leather Binding; Fine Binding; Tree Calf; 19th Century; Rare; Collectible; Beautiful; Great Britain; British.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Great Britain;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
14 day return guarantee, with full refund if an item arrives mis-described or damaged. Buyer pays return shipping.
About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
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