Ward Lock Bowden, 1893. Hardcover. Good. 1893. Reprint. 258 pages. No dust jacket. Navy cloth with gilt lettering. B&W frontispiece. Clean pages. Notable tanning to endpapers and page edges. Previous owner's name to front endpaper and half title page. Some gutter cracking. Pages are rough cut along top edge. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine and board edges, with scuffing and marking to boards.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1683813243IEV
Title: The Tragic Comedians
Author: George Meredith
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Ward Lock Bowden
Date Published: 1893

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Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Half Title: The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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....
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...