French Lyrics
by Saintsbury, George (sel. & annotated) A. Gerardin (illust.)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Philip Lee Warner, 1910. 1st ed. thus. Near Fine. small octavo. tooled leather 246pp., col. frontis., col. pls., index, Eight fine tipped-in colour plates by Gerardin. Bright gilt device of Methodist Ladies College on upper board & MLC Prize-label on front paste-down. Emerald leather binding worn at head of spine, top of boards & extremities o/w nice tight prize-binding with aeg
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A114887
- Title
- French Lyrics
- Author
- Saintsbury, George (sel. & annotated) A. Gerardin (illust.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st ed. thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Philip Lee Warner
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1910
- Size
- small octavo
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About the Seller
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MELBOURNE, Victoria
About Andrew Barnes Booksellers
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
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- 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...
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
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