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The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century - in Two Volumes
by Oliphant, Mrs
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Andover, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
New York: Macmillan, 1886. New Edition in two volumes, published following the three-volume set of 1882. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Top edges gilt. Vol. I is 500 pp.; Vol. II is 496 pp. including index, plus advertising. The spine ends and corners of each volume are worn. The boards and spine have some stains. The leaves are very lightly toned around their margins. Otherwise both volumes are fine: Unmarked and in square, tight bindings with hinges intact. These are apparently unread copies.. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010229
- Title
- The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century - in Two Volumes
- Author
- Oliphant, Mrs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1886
- Keywords
- History Literature England
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
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Andover, Massachusetts
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- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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