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The Poetical Works and Letters of Robert Burns: with copious marginal explanations of the Scotch Words, and Life.
de Burns, Robert
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- Muy bueno
- Tapa dura
- Estado
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- Librería
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Edinburgh and London: Gall & Inglis, 1882. Hardcover, green cloth binding with beveled edges blocked in gold and black, with recessed oblong oval on front board containing a white enameled angel and lyre against a black and gold background. All edges gilt. 642 pages. Index of First Lines. Illustrated with steel engraved plates. Text pages surrounded by wide printed pictorial borders ranging in color from green to blue to sepia. Circa 1880 with contemporary gift inscription on first blank after end-paper dated "New Year, 1882". No previous ownership marks. Professionally re-enforced inner hinges, complimenting original brown end-papers. A clean, square, unmarked copy. Text and illustrations clean with no foxing. Cloth covers show only incidental rubbing to raised gold lettering. A very nice example of mid-Victorian book-binding in a wonderfully evocative cloth binding. Very good or better. . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 015047
- Título
- The Poetical Works and Letters of Robert Burns: with copious marginal explanations of the Scotch Words, and Life.
- Autor
- Burns, Robert
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Editorial
- Gall & Inglis
- Lugar de publicación
- Edinburgh and London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1882
- Palabras clave
- Poetry, Fine Binding, Victorian Decorative Cloth Binding
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Poetry; Decorative Publishers Cloth Bindings;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Términos de venta
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
Sobre Great Expectations Rare Books
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
