The Chronicle of the Drum
by Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1882. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, gray cloth with red, black, and gilt embossed spine title, cover title, and bright cover illustration and decoration. Boards have beveled edges. All edges gilt. 70 pages, tissue-guarded frontispiece, 30 full-page illustrations; artists include A.B. Frost. Howard Pyle. Fredericks, J. S. Davis and others. A ballad written in Paris in 1841 at the time of the second funeral of Napoleon and is a narrative of French military history. Slender piece of cloth chipped away on rear cover, otherwise clean, very good. Record # 383491
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 383491
- Title
- The Chronicle of the Drum
- Author
- Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- Literature, Illustrated, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- 1st Thus
- This indicates that this is not the first appearance of a book in print, but that this is the first appearance in a...