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Edinburgh under Sir Walter Scott
by Fyfe, W. T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- A little rubbing at top and bottom of spine and corner tips. Previous owner's name embossed on title page. A faint trace of foxi
- Seller
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Toledo, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co, 1907. First Edition. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gold. 314 pp. Top edge gilt. A little rubbing at top and bottom of spine and corner tips. Previous owner's name embossed on title page. A faint trace of foxing to prelims. Overall a tight, clean very nice copy.. In the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth - from, approximately, the death of Samuel Johnson in 1784 to that of Walter Scott in 1832 - Edinburgh, rather than London, was the intellectual centre of the kingdom. It would, of course, be easy to show that London has never lacked illustrious men of letters among her citizens, and, in this very period, the names of Sheridan, Bentham, Blake, Lamb, and Keats at once occur to memory as evidence against our thesis. It must also be admitted that Edinburgh shares some of her great names with London, and that many of the writers of the time are associated with neither capital.
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- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 748
- Title
- Edinburgh under Sir Walter Scott
- Author
- Fyfe, W. T
- Format/Binding
- 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gold. 314 pp. Top edge gilt
- Book Condition
- Used - A little rubbing at top and bottom of spine and corner tips. Previous owner's name embossed on title page. A faint trace of foxi
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- E. P. Dutton and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
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- Title Page
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- 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....
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