THE TESTAMENT OF BEAUTY. A Poem in Four Books.
by BRIDGES, Robert:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Great Britain: Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1930. Second edition. Second edition. Quarter vellum binding with marbled boards and gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Photographic portrait frontispiece, with tissue guard. A better than very good copy. The binding square and firm, the contents are very bright and clean throughout. Complete with the very good, rubbed and nicked dustwrapper which has a couple of light cup rings to the upper panel. Not price-clipped (10s to front flap). From the library of Martin Stone. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lucius Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16251
- Title
- THE TESTAMENT OF BEAUTY. A Poem in Four Books.
- Author
- BRIDGES, Robert:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Second edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Great Britain: Oxford at the Clarendon Press. 1930
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York, North Yorkshire
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- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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...