The Great Composers Stories of the Lives of Eminent Musicians
by C E Bourne
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Rotherfield, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1111. 4th Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Octavo. Published circa 1890. AEG Fully bound in calf with excellently gilt decorated spine, marbled end papers. School prize plate to FPD. Very slight foxing to end papers. A lovely book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Strawberry Hill Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 036535
- Title
- The Great Composers Stories of the Lives of Eminent Musicians
- Author
- C E Bourne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Publisher
- Swan Sonnenschein
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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About the Seller
Strawberry Hill Books
Biblio member since 2010
Rotherfield, East Sussex
About Strawberry Hill Books
Strawberry Hill Books is a UK based collectable and antiquarian book dealer with an inventory of 10K titles. Specialist areas include Fiction, Topography, History, Art and Exploration. We supply worldwide and all shipments are tracked.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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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