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The Faerie Queene (in two volumes)
by SPENSER, Edmund (1553–1599)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, United Kingdom
Item Price
NZ$417.27
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About This Item
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1909. First Edition. Half Buckram. Very good. 4to (33cm). A plain pale reddish buckram to spine over plain boards. No. 56 of 350 copies, printed on handmade paper and set in Cambridge type. Vol I: Books I to III. pp. 544, including to rear the two pages of Errata. Vol II: Books IV to VI, and the fragment of Book VII. pp. 494. Rough trimmed leading and lower page edges. The boards, more so to Vol I, with some rubs, minor marks and wear to tips. Small tear to cloth at head of spine adjacent front board. Tips of Vol II worn, a 4" or 11cm tear along head of spine to front board. Boards overall well kept. Internally, pages in both volumes clean and unmarked, bindings firm. Some copies of this edition were issued in a vellum binding with gilt top edge. These copies are of the plain variant bindings.
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- tinyBook
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00005815
- Title
- The Faerie Queene (in two volumes)
- Author
- SPENSER, Edmund (1553–1599)
- Format/Binding
- Half Buckram
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1909
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature and modern firsts;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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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