AN ESSAY ON DANCING
by Crane, J. Townley
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Oneonta, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1849. This antique hardcover book is bound in dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering, with etched borders on the front cover. Cover is spotted/worn at edges; water damaged, spine ends worn; some pencil marks within. The author writes about the history of dance and takes on the popular 19th-century conception that dancing for pleasure is evil or immoral. 132 pages; approx. 4"x7".. Ninth Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. 4 x 7.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Popeks Books, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- eef7287
- Title
- AN ESSAY ON DANCING
- Author
- Crane, J. Townley
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Ninth Edition
- Publisher
- Hunt & Eaton
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1849
- Size
- 4 x 7
- Keywords
- DANCE RELIGION ANTIQUARIAN PHILOSOPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Dance;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Popeks Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2003
Oneonta, New York
About Popeks Books, IOBA
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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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...