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Lavengro: In Three Volumes. The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest.
by BORROW, GEORGE:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, John Murray, 1851 1st. Three volumes. Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Halfbound calf leather and textured brown cloth to boards. Gilt decorations and twin red leather labels to spines. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good condition. Some minor fading to spines with rubbing to spine labels. Some minor handling marks to cloth and a couple of minor bumps to corners and edges. Frontis plate and title page in vol.1. darkened, some tanning and darkening, some foxing to preface and contents pages, title in vol.3 darkened with minor stain to edge. Inside pages very clean, bright and tight. Else a very good clean and tight set. 3 vols: xx + 360, xi + 366, & xi + 426pp. Illustrated with a B&W engraved frontis portrait of the Author. Lavengro is set up as the tale of Borrow's own life of wandering (he visited France, Spain, Russia and the East among others studying their languages as he went). Here, as the son of a soldier, he travels through England, Scotland and Ireland experiencing strange and diverse places and befriending such people as gypsies and tinkers. His adventures lead him to murderers and thieves and to fighting while Borrow always reminds us of his beloved comparative study of languages. However, it is of note that doubt has been cast upon some of his scholarship in this respect and he liked to exaggerate somewhat - though presumably only in pursuit of an exciting story.
Synopsis
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th century English literature. According to the author lav-engro is a Romany word meaning "word master". The historian G. M. Trevelyan called it "a book that breathes the spirit of that period of strong and eccentric characters".
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93635
- Title
- Lavengro: In Three Volumes. The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest.
- Author
- BORROW, GEORGE:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, John Murray, 1851 1st
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHIES/LETTERS/DIARIES GEORGE BORROW, E.J.SULLIVAN, Lavengro, Scholar, Gypsy, Priest, first edition, England, Scotland, Ireland, gypsies, tinkers, languages, scholarship, first edition, G. T. Bettany, editor Leather Binding
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- Title Page
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- 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....
- Edges
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- Tight
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- Cloth
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