Didot Freres, 1856. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1856. No edition remarks. 690 pages. No dust jacket. Quarter bound red leather with marbled paper covered boards. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Pencil underlining and marginalia to pages throughout. Cracking to hinges with exposed binding. Previous owner's plate to front free endpaper. Some mild water staining to first few pages. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Scuffed loss to paper. Soft crushing to spine ends. Leather peeling to all surfaces, with noticeable scuffing and scratches overall. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Small holes to spine. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1625840084BTH
Title: La Nouvelle Heloise
Author: J. J. Rousseau
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Didot Freres
Date Published: 1856

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Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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....
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.