MEMOIRS OF HORACE WALPOLE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: Including Numerous Original Letters Chiefly from Strawberry Hill
by Warburton, Eliot, ed
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Both volumes almost imperceptibly rebacked preserving all original materials, bookplate of Monsignor (San Francisco) Joseph Glea
- Seller
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Fort Bragg, California, United States
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About This Item
London: Colburn & Co., 1852. First edition. Hardbound. Both volumes almost imperceptibly rebacked preserving all original materials, bookplate of Monsignor (San Francisco) Joseph Gleason in both volumes, library pockets on rear pastedowns, but no library markings, very good. 2 volumes, original brown cloth, octavo (6 x 9 inches), xi, 506; 577 pp. Engraved frontispiece in each volume.
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- Bookseller
- Chanticleer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15298
- Title
- MEMOIRS OF HORACE WALPOLE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES: Including Numerous Original Letters Chiefly from Strawberry Hill
- Author
- Warburton, Eliot, ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - Both volumes almost imperceptibly rebacked preserving all original materials, bookplate of Monsignor (San Francisco) Joseph Glea
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Colburn & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1852
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Rebacked
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- Bookplate
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