Burns' Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
by Robert Burns
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: John Sharpe, 1824. Hardcover. Good. Pleasant leather binding of Burns' songs, his posthumous poems and further reliques, With engravings. Full leather with gilt lyre decoration to spine. Marbled end-papers with matching marbling to page edges, with inner and outer dentelles. Toning and rubbing to covers, especially to top of spine where there is slight loss. Some mild spotting to edges of plates, otherwise bright and clean within. Binding tight. Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005224
- Title
- Burns' Songs, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect
- Author
- Robert Burns
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Sharpe
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1824
- Keywords
- leather_binding, scots, scottish, scotland, verse, poems, hymns, letters,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bindings;
Terms of Sale
AJ Scruffles
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About the Seller
AJ Scruffles
Biblio member since 2010
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
About AJ Scruffles
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.