Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas.
by VERNE, Jules
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London., 1876. Author's Edition, with illustrations." Small octavo. Two volumes in one, but with continuous pagination. 302 pages. Nine full-page engravings, two half-page. Period binding of quarter red calf with raised bands, gilt decorated spine. Marbled boards, endpapers and edges. Covers edges rubbed and some light and occasional spotting. Very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- VERNEJUL008484
- Title
- Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas.
- Author
- VERNE, Jules
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, London.
- Date Published
- 1876
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...