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ROUSSEAU
by MORLEY, JOHN
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London and New York: Macmillan and Company, 1888. TWO VOLUMES uniformly bound. Marbled boards with matching edges and endpapers. Fine armorial book-plate front pastedowns of both volumes. Panelled spines with leather labels and elaborate gilt designs. Half-titles both volumes.Small water-stain front cover of Volume 1 near foot. Previous owner's inscription in neat script top of a front preliminary. A very attractive set, clean and crisp throughout the text. 337-348pp. The first edition was published in 1873. Jean-Jacques Pousseau (1712-1778) was a SDwiss Philosopheer, writer, and composer, a major influence on the development and progress of the Age of Enlightment through Europe. . Third Edition. 1/2 Butterscotch Leather. Light Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015380
- Title
- ROUSSEAU
- Author
- MORLEY, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Third Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Company
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1888
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Philosophy, Age of Enlightment, Biography
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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