The Poetical Works of Lord Byron with a Memoir
by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin and Company. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good + ; No jacket Houghton Mifflin, no date (ca.1880). Vol. 5 only of the "Ten Volumes in Five" edition. Hardcover book has half leather tan calf binding and marbled boards in maroon and white with blue accents. Edges are rubbed. Corners are rounded. Boards are visible at corners. Bottom calf corner has top smooth surface layer of leather pulled off in a comb-like pattern about 1" long. Spine has six panels with raised bands; red panel has title 'British Poets'; black panel has title ' Byron - Vol. V' and other panels have decorative tooled gilt devices. Spine has some scratches. Top of spine is chipped and rubbed. Covers and spine have gilt rules at all edges of calf. Endpapers and all edges are marbled in red and white with blue pattern that matches covers. Front endpaper has a bookplate. The contents of volume 5 comprise volumes 9 and 10, 454 and 417 pages, Don Juan, Cantos 1 - 16. No dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1079
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Lord Byron with a Memoir
- Author
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Keywords
- Poetry,Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literature;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
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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...
- 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...
- Bookplate
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- 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 boards
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