Peveril of the Peak (in 3 parts); A Legend of Montrose
by Scott, Walter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Dana Estes and Company, 1900. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good+ ; No jacket. Circa 1900 Dana Estes and Company, copyright 1893 Estes and Lauriat. Four volumes in two, from the Standard Edition, limited to 1000 copies. This is copy 631. Introductory essay and notes by Andrew Lang. NOT ex-library. Hardcovers have red cloth-covered boards with paper spine labels. Tissued frontispieces and black and white plates. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore edges. Many bottom page edges unopened (uncut). Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Spines sunned; labels a little darkened. Covers have light edge wear and surface rubbing. Second book has a few smudges on covers. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. Pages clean and unmarked. First book contains Peveril of the Peak, vols. I and II (250 + 324 pages). Second book contains Peveril of the Peak, vol. III and A Legend of Montrose (321 + 319 pages). No dust jacket. Limitation page states: "The Standard Edition of the Novels and Poems of Sir Walter Scott. Limited to one thousand numbered and registered sets, of which this is No. 631" (631 is hand stamped in red ink). Spine label has "Waverley Novels" at head of title. See our listings for other volumes in this set. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7079
- Title
- Peveril of the Peak (in 3 parts); A Legend of Montrose
- Author
- Scott, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Dana Estes and Company
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- Waverley Novels,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Waverley Novels;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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