Seven Discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the President
by REYNOLDS, JOSHUA
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Royal Academy (T Cadell) 1778. First edition, octavo, brown leather binding with gilt lettering & gilt rule bands to spine, 326pp + 2pp book list, VG- (front board & fep detached, heavy staining, rubbing, fraying & bruising to boards, moderately heavy browning to prelims & terminals & page edges, annotation in ink to fep, light tanning/foxing throughout)
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Hard To Find Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 186506
- Title
- Seven Discourses delivered in the Royal Academy by the President
- Author
- REYNOLDS, JOSHUA
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Royal Academy (T Cadell) 1778
- Keywords
- Joshua Reynolds first edition Royal Academy lectures discourses speeches
Terms of Sale
Hard To Find Books
Fast and professional shipping. All stock is returnable within seven days of receipt if it does not match description.
About the Seller
Hard To Find Books
Biblio member since 2004
DUNEDIN, Auckland
About Hard To Find Books
New Zealand's largest Bookdealer.We stock:History, First Editions, Military,Science, Law, Car manuals, Antiquarian, Genealogy, New Zealand, Travel, Art, Politics, Royalty, Aviation, Science, Technology, Humanities, Sport, Nautical,Poetry, Literature etc
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.