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THE ESSAYS OF ELIA
by LAMB, CHARLES
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Nearly Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall Covers with French fillet borders, corner rondelles in gilt. All edges gilt. Spine with elaborate gilt designs, tan and black leather spine labels. Inner dentelles. Red marbled endpapers. SIGNED BINDING by Riviere and Sons. Frontispiece portrait of the author with tissue-guard. Owner's name in very small neat hand on a front preliminary page. Clean and crisp throughout. 293pp. Charles Lamb (1775-1834) was an English writer and essayist who wrote under the nom-de-plume of "Elia". Th "Essays of Elia" were first published in book form in 1823. This is a beautiful book, ready for the book shelf or as a special gift. Housed in a custom red slipcase. . Later Edition. Full Crimson Smooth Morocco. Nearly Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015450
- Title
- THE ESSAYS OF ELIA
- Author
- LAMB, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Charles Lamb, Fine Binding
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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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