ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LOWELL
by COWLEY, Charles
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Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
1868. COWLEY, Charles. ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LOWELL. Boston: Lee and Shepard/Lowell: C. Sargeant and Joshua Merrill, 1868. 235 pp. 12mo., dark brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Moderate shelfwear at heel and crown, small ink stain to bottom of spine. B/w frontispieces and illustrations. Early manufacturing accounts, textile mills, magnates. Folding map on pink paper in excellent condition. Lowell, Massachusetts, from colonial times.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Boston Book Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84765
- Title
- ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LOWELL
- Author
- COWLEY, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1868
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Boston Book Company
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Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
About Boston Book Company
Specializing in East Asian Books with Aesthetic Interest, Japanese Books with Original Art, English and American Literature, Women's Books and the Generally Intriguing!
Established in 1979, Boston Book Company offers rare and interesting books in a broad range of subjects. Our areas of particular expertise: Japanese artist books of all eras, East Asian art in general, photographica, local history, women's books, English and American literature..
We are always eager to learn something new.... Every collector brings a novel approach to our shared love of books.
Welcome!
Helen Kelly
Charles Vilnis
David Fredette
James Desrosiers
Elizabeth Fragala
Established in 1979, Boston Book Company offers rare and interesting books in a broad range of subjects. Our areas of particular expertise: Japanese artist books of all eras, East Asian art in general, photographica, local history, women's books, English and American literature..
We are always eager to learn something new.... Every collector brings a novel approach to our shared love of books.
Welcome!
Helen Kelly
Charles Vilnis
David Fredette
James Desrosiers
Elizabeth Fragala
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- 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...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. 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....