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Life of Lord Lawrence
by Bosworth Smith
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Waynesboro, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Smith, Elder & Co, 1883. First Edition. Three-Quarters Leather. Good/No Jacket. 2 Volumes with portrait and map. 3/4 leather & marbled covers with gilt. Top edge gilt Rubbed at spine edges and fraying at corners. Interior is clean with small bookplate on front endpaper. Endpapers marbled. Vol I - Title page separated & 1st few pages starting to separate at top otherwise tight. 536 pp, Vol II - tight, 654 pp. Front hinges on both are week and worn at cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17412
- Title
- Life of Lord Lawrence
- Author
- Bosworth Smith
- Format/Binding
- Three-Quarters Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder & Co
- Date Published
- 1883
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage Nonfiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Stone Soup Books
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About the Seller
Stone Soup Books
Biblio member since 2015
Waynesboro, Virginia
About Stone Soup Books
Stone Soup Books, located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains in downtown Waynesboro, Virginia offers brick and mortar book shopping by appointment, personalized bookselling, book scouting services, & event bookselling services. We love to connect books with people who love them.
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
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