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My Miscellanies.
by COLLINS, Wilkie
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- Hardcover
- first
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sampson Low, London., 1863. First edition. Octavo. Two volumes: pp [viii], 291; [iv], 300. Mid-Twentieth Century binding by Rivière of three-quarter red morocco with raised bands, gilt decorated spines, gilt rules, cloth sides. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. With the burgundy leather ex libris Beeleigh Abbey bookplate of W.A. Foyle on the front pastedown of each volume. A collection of 24 essays and stories, all of which first appeared in Household Words and All the Year Round.Two pages darkened at outer edges. A near-fine set.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- COLLINSW020825
- Title
- My Miscellanies.
- Author
- COLLINS, Wilkie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, London.
- Date Published
- 1863
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- First Edition
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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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