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Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People.
by DICKENS, CHARLES:
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Chapman and Hall, 1850. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. In dark green cloth, decorative blind embossed boards, with gilt decoration and lettering to spine. Pale yellow endpapers. In very good condition. Cloth faded, spine and edges darkened, corners bumped and slightly nicked. Small nicks to ends of spine with small chip to top end. Endpapers clean, bookseller label “Houghton & Co. Poultry, Fancy Stationary” to front and rear. Small fingerprint to title page and one minor spot to frontis plate. Some pages roughly cut along top edges, else pages all very clean and tight throughout. A very good clean and tight copy. 303pp. Illustrated with a single B&W frontis plate.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84211
- Title
- Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People.
- Author
- DICKENS, CHARLES:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Chapman and Hall, 1850
- Keywords
- Literature CHARLES DICKENS, Sketches by Boz, Every-Day Life, GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, Every-Day People, Third Edition, Three Volumes, 1837, Quarter bound in black polished calf leather, Illustrated with 25 B&W engraved plates,
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Title Page
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- Plate
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
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