The Standard Speaker; Containing Exercises In Prose And Poetry For Declamation In Schools, Academies, Lyceums, Colleges
by Sargent, Epes
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Charles Desilver & Sons, No Date. Sixtieth Edition. HB. Half black leather over black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo, 558 pp. X-school library, but only mark is name stamped and written on front paste-down. No marks on covers. No marks in text, binding solid. Covers show edge wear, corners worn through to boards, leather on spine scuffed, chipping at top and bottom. Edges of text block show some foxing. Book condition Good.
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- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- KY7764
- Title
- The Standard Speaker; Containing Exercises In Prose And Poetry For Declamation In Schools, Academies, Lyceums, Colleges
- Author
- Sargent, Epes
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Sixtieth Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Desilver & Sons
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- No Date
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rhetoric;
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Parker's Rare Books
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Ontario, Wisconsin
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Glossary
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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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- 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...
- 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...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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