a collection of six plays bound together - High life below stairs; three weeks after marriage; the tragedy of tragedies or the life and death of tom thumb the great; the guardian; the quaker a comic opera and the apprentice
by GARRICK, DAVID; MURPHY, ARTHUR; FIELDING, HENRY; DIBDIN, CHARLES;
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1805. . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 16mo. - half leather over marbled paper covered boards - corners bumped with boards exposed - paper chipped to board edges - leather chipped and is creased and split to spine with partial loss to head of spine - boards toned and heavily rubbed - joints cracked and hinges breached but not open- spine cracked and loose signature to tom thumb -some minor scattered foxing - previous owners bookplate and name to front pastedown endpaper and list of titles written in ink to front free endpaper which is loose - bok ow solid and content is clean and unmarked -
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- Green Ink Booksellers (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 623092
- Title
- a collection of six plays bound together - High life below stairs; three weeks after marriage; the tragedy of tragedies or the life and death of tom thumb the great; the guardian; the quaker a comic opera and the apprentice
- Author
- GARRICK, DAVID; MURPHY, ARTHUR; FIELDING, HENRY; DIBDIN, CHARLES;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Date Published
- 1805
- Size
- No dustwrapper
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Hay on Wye, Powys
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- Edges
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- Spine
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- Cracked
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- Dustwrapper
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- Bookplate
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Jacket
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