Attempts at Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant: with some Account of the Writer, Written by Himself: and an Introductory Essay on the Lives and Works our Uneducated Poets
by Jones, John; [with] Robert Southey, Esq
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1831. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. xiii,. 332 pages. Hardcover bound in 19th century full brown leather with raised bands on the spine. Compartments and boarders of the boards are ruled in gilt, and the spine titles are in gilt. All edges red. The binding is rubbed, especially along the hinges and shows some old stains, especially at the fore edges and the top edge. The red edges of the text block are rubbed and show pale spotting. An ex-library copy with white shelf numbers partially rubbed off at the foot of the spine. Removed label from the front flyleaf shows some paper residue. The text block is sound, and the text is a little toned but generally clean. Scarce.
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- Seller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 047472
- Title
- Attempts at Verse, by John Jones, an Old Servant: with some Account of the Writer, Written by Himself: and an Introductory Essay on the Lives and Works our Uneducated Poets
- Author
- Jones, John; [with] Robert Southey, Esq
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Publisher
- John Murray, Albemarle Street
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1831
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Weight
- 1.90 lbs
- Keywords
- 1831; John Jones; Robert Southey; Poetry; Poems; Poet; 19th Century; Leather Binding; Rare; Collectible.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- 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....
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
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