THE WORKS [17 Volumes Uniformly Bound By Bayntun]
by Lever, Charles
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chapman & Hall, 1872. Book. Very Good. Half Leather. New Edition. 8vo. A handsome set, of most of Lever's major works, bound by the famous binder - Bayntun, Bath, England. Most published by Chapman & Hall, 1872 - 1873; New edition, otherwise pub. Routledge as indicated. Titles as follows:- Charles O'Malley; Tom Burke; The O'Donoghue; The Knight of Gwynne; Con Cregan; Roland Cashel; The Daltons; The Dodd Family Abroad; The Martins; Davenport Dunn; One of Them; Barrington; Luttrell of Arran; Lord Kilgobbin; The Bramleighs of Bishop's Follys; Jack Hinton; and Arthur O'Leary (pub. George Routledge). Illustrated throughout with frontispieces and engraved plates by Phiz, Browne et al; many with separate engraved and letterpress title pages. Half bound in green morocco (uniformly faded to tan) with green cloth boards, five raised bands to the spines, gilt lettering; top edges gilt, marbled end papers. Bindings vey good, joints strong, slight general wear, several lightly stained and marked. Contents generaly clean and tight, a little browning/marking to the first and last few pages of some volumes, a few pages with very small water stains to edges, otherwise clean, a few titles missing tissue guards to frontispiece plates; several with light silverfish damage to the edges of the endpapers and first and last few pages. Specific faults as follows: Tom Burke with some silverfish damage to the fore-edge of the frontispiece plate but not affecting image; Lord Kilgobbin missing rear free end paper; Dodd Family, small strip missing from lower edge of half-title page (not nearly affecting text). A very good set that looks particularly well on the shelf. Please note: a heavy set and a small postal surcharge may apply,.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Loe Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 027375
- Title
- THE WORKS [17 Volumes Uniformly Bound By Bayntun]
- Author
- Lever, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- New Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1872
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bindings - Fine; Literary Sets;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Launceston, Cornwall
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- PUB
- Common abbreviation for 'published'
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Half Bound
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