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The Toilers of the Sea
de Victor Hugo, Gustave Dore (Illustrator)
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New York: Harper and Brothers, [1870's]. 7 x 10 1/2". Brown cloth over boards with beveled edges, frontispiece etching of Victor Hugo is missing tissue guard, 2 illustrations by Gustave Dore have tissue guards intact, some stains and wear to covers, corners bumped and frayed spine ends show wear, minor foxing, good + condition. American version originally printed in 1867, but this is one of three possible later versions, either 1873, 1875, or 1878 according to their size. (Malan, p.279) Text in two columns. The book is dedicated by Hugo to the island of Guernsey, where he spent 19 years in exile. The novel setting is just after the Napoleonic Wars and portrays the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island
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- The Book Lair, ABAA
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- BL-001115
- Título
- The Toilers of the Sea
- Autor
- Victor Hugo, Gustave Dore (Illustrator)
- Ilustrador
- Gustave Dore
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- Harper and Brothers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1873
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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....
- 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...
