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The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic. Vol. xvii (17) seventeenth September - October 1793
by Anderson, James (ed)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Ibstock, Leicestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Editor. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1793. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback rebound in new half leather binding with marbled boards, gilt titles on a black leather label, new endpapers, bookplate of George W. Gent retained on front pastedown, internally in very good condition, no inscriptions. 336 + xxviii pages, 2 illustrations on plates, index. Includes articles on sheep breeds in Russia, Persian cotton, a letter from the King of Prussia to Voltaire, improving woollen manufacture and a number of poems .
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- Bookseller
- Aucott & Thomas
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67335
- Title
- The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, consisting of original pieces and selections from performances of merit, foreign and domestic. Vol. xvii (17) seventeenth September - October 1793
- Author
- Anderson, James (ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Editor
- Date Published
- 1793
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Horticulture, Travel, India
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science / General;
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Jacket
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- Bookplate
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- New
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- Marbled boards
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- 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...
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