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POEMS
by ROGERS, SAMUEL
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Almost No Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Edward Moxon, 1842. Covers with elaborate gilt fillet and floral bordering. Gilt panelled spine with panel decorations. All edges gilt. LOVELY FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF OXFORD with university buildings in background, sailing vessels on the Thames (or Isis) River in foreground. Pleasing old armorial book-plate on front pastedown. Illustrated throughout with full-page plates, chapter heads and tail pieces. Some scattered foxing, usually peripheral and never heavy. A fine binding and fore-edge painting. Rogers' poems first appeared in 1834. 305pp.. Later Edition. Full Emerald Green Morocco. Almost No Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013826
- Title
- POEMS
- Author
- ROGERS, SAMUEL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Almost No Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- Edward Moxon
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1842
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Poetry, Fine Binding, Fore-edge Painting
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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