Rasselas, A Tale by Doctor Johnson
by (Johnson, Samuel)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware, United States
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About This Item
London: Suttaby, Evans, & Fox, 1825. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall. 184pp. Full calaf, leather spine label, gilt decoration to spine, engraved frontispiece and title page, 4 additional full page engravings. Covers worn, cracking to inner hinges but binding holding tightly, contents tanned and lightly foxed a one inch clean tear to page 3-4 (with no loss), former owner's name in pencil on front free endpaper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old Bookshelf (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004393
- Title
- Rasselas, A Tale by Doctor Johnson
- Author
- (Johnson, Samuel)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Suttaby, Evans, & Fox
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1825
- Pages
- 184
- Size
- 32mo - over 4 - 5" tall
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About the Seller
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Wilmington, Delaware
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...