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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome. Authorised Edition.
by (MACAULAY)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Longmans, Green & Co. 1888. Hardback, 7 x 5 inches. In full tree calf leather fine binding by “BICKERS, Leicestershire.”. Raised banding and gilt decorations to spine, with gilt lettered spine label. Decorative gilt paneled boards. Marbled page edges and endpapers. In good condition. Some light handling marks with some light rubbing to edges. Very faint crack lower front hinge. Small light scuff head of spine. Prize inscription on second blank page. Binders stamp to top corner of first blank page. Inside a few lower corners a little creased, page 793 small loss lower corner, generally clean and tight throughout. 898pp.
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- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome. Authorised Edition.
- Author
- (MACAULAY)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green & Co. 1888
- Keywords
- Literature MACAULAY, Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome, 8 Longmans, Green & Co., 1888, tree calf, leather, fine binding,
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Dorchester, Dorset
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tight
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- Fine Binding
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- Spine Label
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- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Spine
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