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Paris Sketch Book; The Irish Sketch Book; and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Baldwinsville, New York, United States
Item Price
A$114.76A$103.29
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About This Item
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1907. Flexible Boards. Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Very Good. See scans and description. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1907. William Makepeace Thackeray's 'Paris Sketch Book; The Irish Sketch Book; and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo'. 16mo, deep green flexible leather boards with gilt spine imprinting, green marbled endpapers, green page marker ribbon, frontispiece with tissue guard, Top Edge Gilt, 835 pp. (312 + 352 + 171, for the three titles respectively). A very strong Very Good. Some rubbing to the covers; small-scale edge wear; tissue guard for the frontispiece is foxed (no foxing elsewhere) early owner's inscription at verso of first free endpaper. See all scans. Not fully fiction, nor satire, this trio of Thackeray titles can be seen as travelogues with commentary - though the second title, The Irish Sketch Book, is regarded as anti-Catholic in nature. Scare in this condition. Ships in a new, sturdy, protective box - not a bag. L200
Synopsis
Thackeray's collection of travel articles on France in the 1830s.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62536
- Title
- Paris Sketch Book; The Irish Sketch Book; and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
- Author
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Format/Binding
- Flexible Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Thomas Nelson and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1907
- Pages
- 835
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Keywords
- General, Literary, General
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Classics of Fiction From All Eras;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Singularity Rare & Fine
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Baldwinsville, New York
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Glossary
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
- 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...
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