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Selected Essays of Thomas Carlyle
by Thomas Carlyle
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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NZ$63.07NZ$47.29
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About This Item
Selected Essays of Thomas Carlyle with an introduction by Prof. A. Seth Pringle-Pattison, LL.D.
Containing Carlyle's essays on biography, Boswell's Life of Johnson, Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
Hardback, 1909, first edition, published by Andrew Melrose, London, 278 pages.
Measures around 4.75" by 7.25". Greenish cloth boards and spine, a little scuffed, marked and discoloured at edges. Crest to front board. Signs of rubbing and shelf-wear but quite clean and colour has mostly been retained in boards. Spine faded but gilt lettering still very visible. Signs of shelf-wear, small tearing at top of spine. Corners bumped. Binding firm. A little browning to page edges but quite clean. Marking to endpapers. The odd mark throughout but otherwise page surfaces clean, with no marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for further information.
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Details
- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-105
- Title
- Selected Essays of Thomas Carlyle
- Author
- Thomas Carlyle
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Andrew Melrose
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1909
- Pages
- 278
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Thomas Carlyle; Essays; James Boswell; Samuel Johnson; Robert Burns; Sir Walter Scott
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Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
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