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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome (Popular Edition)
by Lord Macaulay
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Longmans, Green and Co., 1889. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1889. Popular Edition. 921 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with blind stamped half bound style design and gilt. Marbled end papers and text-block edges. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Front free end-paper torn from sticker removal. Some minor pencil marks to reverse of front free end paper. Cracking to gutters resulting in a shaky binding. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is still quite bright and clear. Top edge of text block is dust marked.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1657830769LEE
- Title
- Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome (Popular Edition)
- Author
- Lord Macaulay
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co.
- Date Published
- 1889
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Half Bound
- ...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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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