THE LIMITS OF REFORM IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT: ATTITUDES TOWARD THE EDUCATION OF THE LOWER CLASSES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE (PRINCETON LEGACY LIBRARY)
by Harvey Chisick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0691053057
- ISBN 13
- 9780691053059
- Seller
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Chamblee, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
US: Princeton University Press, 1981. Hardcover. Good in Good jacket. Previous owner's name on first free end paper. Text has unobtrusive very light pencil notes in margins on scattered pages throughout. End papers are faintly foxed. Light wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. Binding is square and tight. Boards are clean but worn along edges, spine ends and corners. Text block is foxed and soiled. Dust jacket has creases, chips, scuffing, and rubbing along the edges. Dust jacket covers are soiled, and there are moisture stains to top spine end and back cover. Pictures provided upon request.
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- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17885
- Title
- THE LIMITS OF REFORM IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT: ATTITUDES TOWARD THE EDUCATION OF THE LOWER CLASSES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE (PRINCETON LEGACY LIBRARY)
- Author
- Harvey Chisick
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0691053057
- ISBN 13
- 9780691053059
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- European History
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Atlanta Vintage Books
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...