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tales: in two volumes (two volumes in one)
by GEORGE CRABBE
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1813. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 12mo. 2 volumes in one - full leather binding - corners and spine ends are bumped and chipped, chipping to leather along joints and partial loss from top of spine - some scuffs to front cover and shelfwear to edges with boards exposed at all corners - previous owners bookplate to front pastedown endpaper - rear blank page is glued to final page so that errata on verso not all legible - all text otherwise clean and unmarked and book is solid - gilt border decorations to boards and gilt bands and decoration to spine - red leather title lable to spine with 'Crabbe's Tales' in gilt -marbled endpapers and edges of text block - 235 pages
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- Bookseller
- Green Ink Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 621646
- Title
- tales: in two volumes (two volumes in one)
- Author
- GEORGE CRABBE
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Date Published
- 1813
- Size
- No dustwrapper
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About the Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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....
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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