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TAKINGS; OR, THE LIFE OF A COLLEGIAN. A POEM
by DAGLEY, RICHARD
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Nearly Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: John Warren, G. And W.B. Whittaker, 1821. Marbled boards with matching endpaper. Panelled spine. Spine sunned to brown as is usually seen with green bindings. Evidence of old removal of a label from front preliminary. Catalogue slip laid-in. Twenty-six full-page hand-colored plates all beginning with the word "Taking". All plates in excellent condition. Lovely typography of the lengthy poem by Thomas Gaspey. Signed binding by Riviere and Sons. 184pp.. First Edition. 3/4 Dark Green Morocco. Nearly Fine/No Jacket. Tall Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013242
- Title
- TAKINGS; OR, THE LIFE OF A COLLEGIAN. A POEM
- Author
- DAGLEY, RICHARD
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Warren, G. And W.B. Whittaker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1821
- Size
- Tall Octavo
- Keywords
- Hand-colored Plates, Poetry, Fine Binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pritchard;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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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...
- Laid-in
- "Laid In" indicates that there is something which is included with, but not attached to the book, such as a sheet of paper. The...
- Sunned
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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....
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- First Edition
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- Marbled boards
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