The Anatomy of Melancholy
by Robert Burton
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Tudor Publishing Company, 1928. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1928. No Edition Remarks. 1036 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Ex-libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Thumb-marking present. Black and brown staining to pages throughout. Pages noticeably crinkled. Visible creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Some crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Some splits to spine ends. Water staining and bubbling to boards. Binding is noticeably shaky, but pages remain intact.
Synopsis
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1689237933MXP
- Title
- The Anatomy of Melancholy
- Author
- Robert Burton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Tudor Publishing Company
- Date Published
- 1928
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...