Essays and Leaves from a Notebook
by Eliot, George
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Wm. L. Allison Company, 1893. Hardcover, red cloth lettered in gold on backstrip. Top edge gilt. Decorative endpapers. Preface by Charles Lee Lewes, reprinted from the first edition of 1883. Christmas inscription on verso of front endpaper, dated 1895. Paper browned, especially at margins, as per usual with this edition. Large type edition. Very good.. Early Printing. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003427
- Title
- Essays and Leaves from a Notebook
- Author
- Eliot, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Early Printing
- Publisher
- Wm. L. Allison Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century English Literature; Alibris3;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Staten Island, New York
About Great Expectations Rare Books
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...