Poetry For Children, etc. (To Which Are Added Prince Dorus and Some Uncollected Poems by Charles Lamb)
by LAMB, CHARLES and MARY
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1878. Hardcover. Good. Blue boards embossed with publisher's stamp to front, gilt lettering and illustration to spine. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's name to ffep in neat ink. Boards bumped and a little scuffed at corners and edges, a few marks. Tanning to margins of endpapers. Some light foxing to first few pages but contents largely unaffected. Front board cracked at hinge slightly revealing webbing, ffep starting to come loose as a consequence, otherwise good + tight and clean. Publisher's catalogue of other titles to rear.
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- Bookseller
- Ripping Yarns
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5000985
- Title
- Poetry For Children, etc. (To Which Are Added Prince Dorus and Some Uncollected Poems by Charles Lamb)
- Author
- LAMB, CHARLES and MARY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1878
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Ripping Yarns
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London, London
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- 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,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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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