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POÉTIQUE FRANÇOISE
by Marmontel (Jean François)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Paris: Lesclapart. Very Good. 1767. Hardcover. Complete in 2 volumes ; contemporary brown speckled calf with ornately gilt decorated spine: red leather title label & dark brown volume label. Triple gilt ruled cover edges surrounding an imprinted gilt armorial emblem on each cover. Marbled endpapers. Page edges dyed red. [xxxvi, 442pp, 1]. [418pp, 1]. Text is tight, clean & intact. Spine ends & edges lightly rubbed. Very old faded ink inscription on verso of title pages. Small booksellers plate on front endpaper. French text. Poetry. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 860 pages .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17655
- Title
- POÉTIQUE FRANÇOISE
- Author
- Marmontel (Jean François)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- Lesclapart
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1767
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Books are conservatively described. Full refund within 20 days. Books mailed upon notification of sale. Books sold by direct payment to bookseller will be shipped after receipt of check or notice of payment through paypal. If your book are heavy or oversized, we may contact you for additional shipping. All books/ephemera are securely packaged to assure safe arrival at their destination. All books for sale are in-stock on premises.
About the Seller
Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2005
Fairfield, New Jersey
About Nick Bikoff, Bookseller
Nick Bikoff and his wife Fran have been buying and selling quality books and ephemera since 1989 when they attended the "Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar" at the University of Denver. They offer a broad based selection of used, rare, and out-of-print stock ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Glossary
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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