The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson Poet Laureate
by Tennyson, Alfred
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- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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About This Item
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A: Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 4 1/2" x 6 1/4. FAIR / NO DUST JACKET. [no date] circa 1900. Cabinet Edition. xi, [1], 878 pp. Text clean and unmarked. Pages slightly toned. Top edges gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Tennyson, protected with tissue. Blue cloth boards decorated with gilt cartouche and gilt borders at front, lettered in gilt at spine. Boards slightly scuffed, edges rubbed, Corners bumped and rubbed, spine top and tail starting to fray. Hinges cracked, but holding, textblock shaken, but intact.
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- RPL Library Store
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- GR002441
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson Poet Laureate
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton, Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A
- Size
- 4 1/2" x 6 1/4
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature Poetry
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- 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...
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