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Pagan and Puritan: The "Octavius" of Minucius; Freely Translated by Arthur Aikin Brodribb
by Felix, Marcus Minucius
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: George Bell & Sons, 1903. Hardcover. Good +. xiv, 89, [3] p.; 17 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Top page edges gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Printed by Chiswick Press. Publisher's advertisement on one page following text. Slip with erratum for p. 73 tipped in before p. 73. Small former owner's stamp on front free endpaper: Victor Bonsall. This may have been the same Victor Bonsall who taught Latin, Greek, and English at Trinity School, New York, from 1903 until his retirement in 1947. Scarce. In Good+ Condition: ends of spine frayed; cover is otherwise lightly rubbed; stain touching lower fore-edges of some of the last pages and lower corner of back board; otherwise, clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006307
- Title
- Pagan and Puritan: The "Octavius" of Minucius; Freely Translated by Arthur Aikin Brodribb
- Author
- Felix, Marcus Minucius
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Bell & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1903
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion & Philosophy;
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Gilt
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