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RAMBLES IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND DURING THE YEAR 1838 - 2 Volumes
by Chatterton, Lady
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No jacket
- Seller
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Yarmouthport, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
London:Saunders and Otley, 1839. 2nd Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/09/0_img_8342-Copy.jpg. London:Saunders and Otley. 1839. 2nd edition. xi+312pp and iv+305pp. Illustrated with 8 lithographic plates (5 with tissue guards) and numerous drawings in text. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Leather spine decorated in gilt. Leather is worn and scuffed with some chipping to spine strip as well as to one leather label. The spine ends are worn and chipped and edge points bumped. The marbled boards are rubbed and shelfworn but boards are still firmly attached. Page edges marbled. Internally, both volumes have 3 bookplates to inside front board (stacked), and both volumes have the 2nd free endpage top edge clipped. The frontispiece in the 1st volume still has tissue guard however other 3 do not, as well as other 3 having old damp stains to outer edge of margins, none intruding onto plate. All 4 plates in volume 2 have tissue guards and are in very good condition. Both volumes are in very good, clean condition. The bindings are tight and hinges intact.
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- Bookseller
- Parnassus Book Service
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25455
- Title
- RAMBLES IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND DURING THE YEAR 1838 - 2 Volumes
- Author
- Chatterton, Lady
- Illustrator
- http://www.parnassusbooks.com/image/data/books/2020/09/0_img_8342-Copy.jpg
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London:Saunders and Otley
- Date Published
- 1839
- Keywords
- TRAVEL; IRELAND;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Parnassus Book Service
Massachusetts residents must add 6.25% state sales tax. Methods of payment: Visa, MC, Discover, Check. Postage. USPS Media Mail is $4.00 for first book, $1.00 for each additional book. UPS and USPS Priority will be at cost. Some books, as noted in offerings, will be at cost. Overseas postage will be at cost. All items returnable with prior arrangement up to 10 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Parnassus Book Service
Biblio member since 2016
Yarmouthport, Massachusetts
About Parnassus Book Service
Ben Muse began selling books from the former Knowles General Store in 1959. Now in our third generation, we are a famiy-run, general book store selling new and old (often rare) books as well as issuing specialty catalogs on a variety of subjects: Americana, Latin America, Maritime, Art, the Orient and a variety of other subjects. If you can't find what you are looking for here on the web, please contact us directly at our Yarmouthport shop -- or better yet stop by to browse and talk. We look forward to seeing you.
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- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...
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