CASTLE OF INDOLENCE: An Allegorical Poem, Written in Imitation of Spenser
by Thomson, James
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: M. M. Holloway/Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1845. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt decoration and title on front cover. Binding moderately soiled and rubbed w/ wear to extremities. All edges gilt. Hinges cracked. Light foxing throughout. Faint dampstain to top corner of several leaves. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Almost 11 1/4" high x 16 3/4" wide; approx. 1/4" thick.. Hard Cover. Fair/No Dust Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Shoemaker Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7148
- Title
- CASTLE OF INDOLENCE: An Allegorical Poem, Written in Imitation of Spenser
- Author
- Thomson, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- M. M. Holloway/Simpkin, Marshall, and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1845
- Keywords
- LITERATURE POETRY POEMS POETS POETIC WORKS POETICAL WORKS LITERARY WORKS ILLUSTRATED
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literature/Poetry;
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About the Seller
Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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Glossary
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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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
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