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Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field
by Scott, Sir Walter
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
London: John Sharpe, 1809. Early Illustrated. Full Leather. Good. 28 x 22cm. Quarto. (12) 377pp cxxvi. Bound in full leather, gilt decorations. Five raised bands to spine. Front outer hinge cracked but holding. Marble endpapers. Early illustrated edition with engravings by Richard Westall. It appears to use leaves of the first edition with 6 plates and an engraved title page by Westall interspersed. Following the engraved title page is a title page identical to the true first edition. Page xvii, line 5 of the notes reads "First lerges" rather than "derges", consistant with first editions. Bookplate on front fixed endpaper, previous owner's name on second endpaper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Midway Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64617
- Title
- Marmion; A Tale of Flodden Field
- Author
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Illustrated
- Publisher
- John Sharpe
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1809
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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St. Paul, Minnesota
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- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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