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English, Past and Present - Five Lectures
by Richard Chenevix Trench
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John W. Parker, 1856. Hardcover. Good. 1856. Third revised edition. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound blue leather with marbled paper covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Ex libris plate at front. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy wear with bumped and abraded corners. Spine ends similarly worn and spine itself strongly scuffed. Gilt dulled. Board surfaces scratched and rubbed.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1718788964MHP
- Title
- English, Past and Present - Five Lectures
- Author
- Richard Chenevix Trench
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John W. Parker
- Date Published
- 1856
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Half Bound
- ...
- 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...