Macmillan, 1925. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1925. Reprinted. 464 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with a black and white illustrated frontis and colour pictorial plates throughout. Moderate tanning to pages with heavier foxing and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front endpaper and both hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Visible tanning to text block edges and binding is loose. Boards have mild rubbing and heavier bumping to corners. Fair crushing to spine ends and visible rubbing to spine. The book is forward leaning.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1652980729LEE
Title: The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
Author: John Addington Symonds
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1925

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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:

Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....