Edinburgh: Ogle & Aikman. Very Good-. 1801. Fourth Edition. 1/4 leather. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages; 4th edition. Volume I only (of two). Soundly bound in 1/4 polished green calf backed spine and corners with marbled paper sides. Extra gilt designs and ruling tooled directly to spine and seams. Light shelf rubbing and scuffing to leather at tips and extremities. 20th Century bookplate to front endpage with 19th C ownership in manuscript to the blank front flyleaf. Light rubbing and flaking to marbled paper over the board edges. Volume I only. Uncommon in original printings. Stennett was a 17th Century Seventh Day Baptist minister and hymn writer. VG- .

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Bookseller: DogStar Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 41000
Title: Discourses on Personal Religion, Vol I (of 2)
Author: Stennett, Samuel
Format/Binding: 1/4 leather
Book Condition: Used - Very Good-
Edition: Fourth Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ogle & Aikman
Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Date Published: 1801
Bookseller catalogs: Christianity; 18th Century Subjects and Studies;

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DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.

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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...
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...
Bookplate: Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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....
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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...
Calf: Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...