Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney; with selections from his journal and correspondence
by Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (Editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Norwich: letcher and Alexander, 1854. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volumes 8vo, 15 cm x 22cm xii,542 + vii,[1],551,[1] pages + 4 facsimilie folding letters. Contents clean and tight with no inscriptions, armorial bookplate to front paste down of each volume of The Earl of Derby. Contemporary half maroon morroco binding gilt decorated spine in compartments. Rubbing to edges and corners, binding tight with no splits or staining. Biography of the Norfolk Quaker and banker, and brother of Elizabeth Fry.
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- Bookseller
- Hereward Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002800
- Title
- Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney; with selections from his journal and correspondence
- Author
- Joseph Bevan Braithwaite (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Publisher
- letcher and Alexander
- Place of Publication
- Norwich
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- QUAKER, NORFOLK, GURNEY
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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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
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- Gilt
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- Tight
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- 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...