Old Paris: Its Courts and Literary Salons (complete set of two volumes)
by Catherine Charlotte, Lady Jackson
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Joseph Knight Company, 1895 Complete two volume set. White cloth with decorative gold gilt on front cover and spine. Gold gilt top stain; other edges uncut. Stiff green dust jacket with gold gilt title on spine. Clean interior. Tight, square binding. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations throughout, each with clean tissue. 10/250 Large paper edition limited to 250 copies. Previous owner's book plate on interior cover.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Genesee Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 102622
- Title
- Old Paris: Its Courts and Literary Salons (complete set of two volumes)
- Author
- Catherine Charlotte, Lady Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Joseph Knight Company
- Date Published
- 1895
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Genesee Books
Biblio member since 2016
Rochester, New York
About Genesee Books
Online book seller out of Rochester NY. My tastes are libertine and quirky and the selection of books tends to reflect those preferences.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
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