The Standard Operaglass; Containing the Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Thirty Celebrated Operas With Critical and Biographical Remarks Dates
by Charles Annesley
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sampson low Marston & Co, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 656 pages. No dust jacket. Decorated blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Cracking to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Some small tear to edges of a few pages. Light scuffing to text-block edges. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Dark rubbed marking to surfaces, with small black marks to spine.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1634113339OLB
- Title
- The Standard Operaglass; Containing the Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Thirty Celebrated Operas With Critical and Biographical Remarks Dates
- Author
- Charles Annesley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sampson low Marston & Co
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- 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....
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...