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Select Poems of Mrs. L. H. Sigourney
by Sigourney, Mrs. L. H. (Lydia Howard)
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Rougemont, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart, 1850. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 1850 edition. A Good copy. Tall 12mo. Publisher's red cloth with gilt devices and elaborate gilt spine title and decoration, all edges gilt. 338 pp, steel engraved plates. The covers are Very Good, the text is very lightly to moderately foxed, the steel engravings are very heavily foxed. Tiny stain on the bottom corner of the first few leaves, old owner name.
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- Bookseller
- Frey Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11483
- Title
- Select Poems of Mrs. L. H. Sigourney
- Author
- Sigourney, Mrs. L. H. (Lydia Howard)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- A. Hart, Late Carey & Hart
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1850
- Keywords
- poems, poetry
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Frey Fine Books
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Rougemont, North Carolina
About Frey Fine Books
Antiquarian bookseller, with over 15 years experience.
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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...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
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