The American Chesterfield, bound with The Honours of the Table
de a member of the Philadelphia Bar
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good/No DJ
- Librería
-
Southampton, Massachusetts, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1827. First Edition. Good/No DJ. 32mo = 4-5". Engravings. Printing Not Spec. Two titles bound together in full, soft leather: The American Chesterfield or Way to Wealth, Honour and Distinction; Being Selections from the Letters of Lord Chesterfield to His Son and Extracts from Other Eminent Authors on the Subject of Politeness with Alterations and Additions suited to the Youth of the United States, By a member of the Philadelphia Bar and The Honours of the Table or, Rules for Behaviour During Meals, with the Whole Art of Carving, illustrated with a variety of cuts. Leather worn along edges with some scratching/rubbing to front and back, leather along one edge of spine is partially split. Spine has gilt bands and gilt lettering on black, gilt decoration along edges much of which is faded. Hinges cracked but pages still bound very tightly. Dampstaining to endpages, pages have some mild dampstaining along edges, a little foxing here and there. Frontispiece engraving with tissue guard.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Heritage Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- NF35781
- Título
- The American Chesterfield, bound with The Honours of the Table
- Autor
- a member of the Philadelphia Bar
- Ilustrador
- Engravings
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No DJ
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- John Grigg
- Lugar de publicación
- Philadelphia
- Fecha de publicación
- 1827
- Páginas
- 272pp
- Tamaño
- 32mo = 4-5"
- Palabras clave
- Historic advice Rules of behaviour Early 1800 manners
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Essays;
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Sobre el vendedor
Heritage Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2008
Southampton, Massachusetts
Sobre Heritage Books
Our bookshop is located in the historic town library building of Southampton, Massachusetts. Southampton lies within the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts with a view of Pomeroy Mountain to the West and Mt. Tom to the North. It is situated between the artistic, vibrant communities of Easthampton and Northampton and the city of Westfield. We have a collection of over 40,000 books with many more waiting to be unboxed and squeezed onto our shelves. The large double-door front entrance will lead you to our main floor where we hold a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles, as well as a good selection of scarce and rare editions. The original fireplace is surrounded by hardbacks and you can peer out the original nine-foot windows. Take the staircase to the basement and you will find our large children's section and many shelves full of paperbacks. Our physical address is 225 College Highway/Route 10. Our mailing address is 241 College Highway & Clark St. P.O. Box 100 Southampton, MA 01073. The store hours indicated are by appointment only Monday through Friday, and Saturday and Sunday you can stop in. Please call to schedule an appointment if you can't make it to the store on the weekends from 11 am to 3 pm.
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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....
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
