A Compendious book of Psalms and Spiritual Songs Commonly Known as "The Gude and Godlie Ballates" - Reprinted from the Edition of 1578
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Sleaford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh: George Robb, 1868. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 304pp. A VERY SCARCE title. ORIGINAL publishers boards with paper label. Brown boards with edgewear to extremities with short splits at spine extremities - textblock still holding FIRM & FAST. Wear to label & titles. Internally a few pencil annotations and lacking the front blank endpaper. The textblock otherwise is quite TIGHT with NO LOOSE & NO MISSING leaves. Not the usual recent cheaply produced reprint..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Julian Roberts Fine Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5882
- Title
- A Compendious book of Psalms and Spiritual Songs Commonly Known as "The Gude and Godlie Ballates" - Reprinted from the Edition of 1578
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Publisher
- George Robb
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- Mk310106
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature & Lit Crit;
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
Julian Roberts Fine Books
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About the Seller
Julian Roberts Fine Books
Biblio member since 2006
Sleaford, Lincolnshire
About Julian Roberts Fine Books
Full Time Professional Bookdealers operating from Lincolnshire. Books can be viewed by appointment. Regular PBFA fairs attended.
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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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.