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Rabelais - The Five Books And Minor Writings Together With Letters & Documents Illustrating His Life - Volume I
by Rabelais
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Alexander P. Watt, 1893. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1893. No Edition Remarks. 613 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Volume I. Translation by W. F. Smith. Rough cut pages. Upper text block edge gilt. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Foxing more intense towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Occasional minor marginalia and underlining. A few edge tears and creases, as expected with rough cut paper. Boards have some edge wear, with pronounced bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are crushed and frayed. Rather scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Intense water staining to front and rear. Gilt is bright.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1656622029DPB
- Title
- Rabelais - The Five Books And Minor Writings Together With Letters & Documents Illustrating His Life - Volume I
- Author
- Rabelais
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alexander P. Watt
- Date Published
- 1893
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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