Tales and Novels By Maria Edgeworth. Twenty Volumes Bound in Ten
by Edgeworth, Maria
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Bros, 1856. This is a nice, and complete, mid-Victorian set of Edgeworth's works, issued seven years after her death. All ten volumes are in Very Good condition. The cloth binding is nicely blindstamped and decorative, filled with gilt on the spine. The original color may have been a green or the typical publisher's purple of the time; now all volumes are an even dark hue closer to umber. The text is clean and unmarked, bright and generally free of foxing; pages are a bit stiff to turn. Several volumes have a small, contemporary, Canadian bookseller's label on the paste-down. In general, the volumes are mildly bumped, some to a bit of fray at the tips. A solid representative set. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002047
- Title
- Tales and Novels By Maria Edgeworth. Twenty Volumes Bound in Ten
- Author
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- Harper & Bros
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1856
- Bookseller catalogs
- Irish Literature;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...