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The Casquet of Literature: Being a selection in poetry and prose from the works of the most admired authors (six volumes)
by GIBBON, Charles and CHRISTIE, Mary Elizabeth (eds.)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Blackie & Son, Limited, 1898. Later reprint in six volumes. 8vos, pp. [ii], [xii], 432; [viii], 416; [viii], 416; [viii], 416; [viii], 416; [viii], 418 + b/w frontises and 10 plates each. Bevelled boards, bound attractively in illustrated olive and umber cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black, olivine edges, brown endpapers. Pushing to spine ends, wear to extremities, a little dusty. Some foxing, else, tight and bright. A handsomely bound set intended to make English Literature accessible to 'the busy man'. n.b. This is a weighty set and will require additional international postage.
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- Bookseller
- Quair Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1881
- Title
- The Casquet of Literature: Being a selection in poetry and prose from the works of the most admired authors (six volumes)
- Author
- GIBBON, Charles and CHRISTIE, Mary Elizabeth (eds.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son, Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Bookseller catalogs
- Illustrated Books;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Quair Books
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About the Seller
Quair Books
Biblio member since 2019
Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Quair Books
Based in West Yorkshire, Quair Books specialises in modern literary and visual cultures, particularly alternative, different and radical authors/ artists, presses and histories. We hold a small general stock, with a focus on unusual, interesting and beautiful books, as well as significant books in the history of ideas. Find us online at: quairbooks.co.uk; email us on: quairbooks@gmail.com and Twitter: @quairbooks.
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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
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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...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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