THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
by JOHNSON, SAMUEL
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: J. Buckland et al, 1790. Red leather spine label. Spine decorated in gilt. Single braod fillet bordering covers. Marbled endpapers. Old armorial book-plates front pastedown na dback of free endpaper. This is Volume 6 in the 75-volume set. It contains life of Young to life of Jenyns. Several full-page engraved portraits of included poets. This volume also includes the short biography of SAMUEL JOHNSON with his portrait on p.183ff. Sewn-in silk bookmark. 279pp.. Full Tree Calf. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. 8 1/4" x 4".
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015391
- Title
- THE WORKS OF THE ENGLISH POETS.
- Author
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- J. Buckland et al
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1790
- Size
- 8 1/4" x 4"
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Samuel Johnson
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...