The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays. Six volumes.
by Cumberland, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: C. Dilly. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1798. Hardcover. Moderate rubbing and scuffing to leather boards. Leather deteriorating. Moderate rubbing to joints and edges of boards. All joints strong. Dust stains to page edges. 1/4" chip to leather at edge of front board on Volume II. Small splits to gutters at endpapers on some volumes. Volume III has some wormholes mainly in margins, not affecting more than one letter of text on each individual leaf. Pencil underlining to index in Volume VI.; Fifth edition. Subtitled "The Fifth Edition, Newly Arranged. To which is added, An Entire Translation of the Comedy of the Clouds. In Six Volumes". Volume I: [vi], 303 pages. Volume II: [vi], 320 pages. Volume III: [vi], 307 pages. Volume IV: [vi], 315 pages. Volume V: [vi], 303 pages. Volume VI: [vi], 252 pages + [44] page index. All volumes: Full speckled calf bindings. Volume numbers on spines are in a decorative red circle. Some gilt decoration to spines. Page dimensions: 175 x 103mm. 152 essays in total, together with the Clouds of Aristophanes. Owner's signatures of Wm Tredwell, 1807 and of R B Willis, 1846 on front endpapers. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6469
- Title
- The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays. Six volumes.
- Author
- Cumberland, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- C. Dilly
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1798
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.