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The Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, 10 volume set
by [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay), ed
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/No DJs
- Seller
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
'Knickerbocker Edition'. Red cloth over boards with contrasting grain patterns; gilt stamped on front cover with double egret device and the macaulay motto 'Dulce periculum'; gilt stamped titles and fancy strapwork patterns on spine; top edges gilt; untrimmed fore edges; 2 color title page; tissue-guarded frontispieces and many interior etchings; decoratice head and tailpieces. Bright, crisp, clean covers and spine; very slight rubbing/fading at spine end corners - no splits or fraying; tightly bound; owner bookplates on each front pastedown 'George Raymond Bunker'; interior is bright, crisp, clean - many leaves unopened at fore edges from front to rear of each volume - they have never been read. 12mo, 4041 total pages. Index in volume 10 for all volumes. Many illustrations. From the collection of Ellsworth Bunker (U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Italy, India, Nepal, South Vietnam, Organization of American States, and twice recipient of U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom). Bookplates are that of Ellsworth Bunker's father.
Details
- Bookseller
- Madden Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16451
- Title
- The Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, 10 volume set
- Author
- [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, Lady Trevelyan (Hannah More Macaulay), ed
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No DJs
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Date Published
- 1900
- Keywords
- BRITISH, BRITAIN, ENGLAND, ENGLISH, ESSAYISTS, BARERE, ADDISON, SPECTATOR, DRYDEN, GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENT, GRENVILLE, BURKE, EDINBURGH, SOUTHEY, BUNYAN. WHIG, CABINET, LIBERAL
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Madden Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Madden Books
Biblio member since 2011
Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Device
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- 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...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- 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...
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