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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Prose Writers. by [Binding]. [KNOX, Vicesimus, editor] - 1817

by [Binding]. [KNOX, Vicesimus, editor]

Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Prose Writers. by [Binding]. [KNOX, Vicesimus, editor] - 1817

Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent Prose Writers.

by [Binding]. [KNOX, Vicesimus, editor]

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New York: Published by Kirk & Mercein, 1817. First American edition. Two volumes bound in one comprising volume III, books v & vi, each book with illustrated title page. 24mo (5.75" x 3.75"), 284 pages. Contemporary full tree calf, the spine with gilt-lettered black morocco label, & embellishments in gilt.

Binding lightly rubbed, hinges beginning to crack (still secure), internally occasionally stained, heavily foxed, last blank leaf with hole, an attractive binding.

Book 5 provides "Odes: Pindaric, Horacion, etc" Book 6, "Elegiac and Funereal."

Please note, we are offering volume III only of a six volume set.

  • Bookseller Citation Books, ABAA/ ILAB US (US)
  • Format/Binding Full tree calf
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Publisher Kirk & Mercein
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published 1817
  • Keywords Fine Binding, Full Tree Calf, Prose, Poetry

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