The Professor and Poems
by Charlotte Bronte (Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte and the Rev. Patrick Bronte)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Orange Park, Florida, United States
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About This Item
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1900. Book. Near Fine. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Two title pages dated 1900. One volume in the seven-volume illustrated Haworth Edition of the Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters. Introduction by Mrs. Humphry Ward. "Emma, A Fragment of a Story by Charlotte Brontë" with an introduction by William Makepeace Thackeray follows at the end of The Professor. Publisher's green-cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt-covered top edge. Dark-blue endpapers. Eleven full-page b/w illustrations, including frontispiece protected with tissue and facsimile reproductions of the title pages from the first editions. (xvii) + 546 text pages + 10 pages publisher ads. Thick and heavy volume measuring 8 1/8" x 6" x 1 3/4". In NEAR FINE condition. Bright and very clean exterior with no sunning. Gilt lettering is bright and unworn. A few slight touches of surface wear. Bottom corners slightly curled inward. Tightly bound and square with strong, secure hinges with no cracking. Excellent interior. The protective tissue covering the frontispiece is partially loose but not the frontispiece illustration itself which is tightly bound. Bright, clean, flawless pages and plates. No previous owner markings..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Odysseus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3953
- Title
- The Professor and Poems
- Author
- Charlotte Bronte (Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte and the Rev. Patrick Bronte)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Collectible, leather, Victorian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; 18th- and 19th-Century Books;
Terms of Sale
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...