The English Cyclopaedia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Biography - Volume I
by Charles Knight
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Bradbury and Evans, 1856. Hardcover. Good. 1856. No edition remarks. 1058 pages. Half bound brown leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces heavily scratched and rubbed. Title patch on spine peeling away.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1712245760LEE
- Title
- The English Cyclopaedia: A New Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Biography - Volume I
- Author
- Charles Knight
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Bradbury and Evans
- Date Published
- 1856
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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....
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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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...
- 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...