The Queeney Letters; being letters addressed to Hester Maria Thrale by Dr Johnson, Fanny Burney and Mrs Thrale-Piozzi
by THE Marquis of Lansdowne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Cassell, 1934 lightly handling soiled buckram, gilt titled spine, end paper has book plate of George Lorimer motto Virtutis Gloria Merces (1894), light foxing to endpapers and closed edges, . First Edition. Buckram. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009911
- Title
- The Queeney Letters; being letters addressed to Hester Maria Thrale by Dr Johnson, Fanny Burney and Mrs Thrale-Piozzi
- Author
- THE Marquis of Lansdowne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Cassell
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Belles Lettres Historical correspondence George Lorimer Bookplate
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION LITERATURE & CRITICISM;
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- 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....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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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