Ginn & Company, 1890. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1890. No Edition Remarks. 143 pages. No dust jacket. Edited by Albert S. Cook. Green embossed cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper, with a pencil inscription on paste-down. Water drops, rubbing and a few small nicks along text block edge. Water drops through pages 23-30. Boards have light shelf-wear with mild corner bumping and slight crushing to spine ends. Book has a pronounced forward lean. Moderate tanning to spine.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1692184155ADA
Title: The Defense of Poesy
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Ginn & Company
Date Published: 1890

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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...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
Paste-down: The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....