Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. Very Good-. 1820. Hardcover. Bindings rubbed at extremities; spine ends & corners abraded; backstrips lightly browned; boards scuffed & smudged; bookplates on front paste-downs; hinges of first volume & one point in textblock cracking; leaf edges, outer leaves & some margins foxed, else an attractive, very sturdy & clean set. ; In older rebinding of red half leather, with red marbled boards & new endpapers; lacks advertisements; companion to Scott's THE MONASTARY. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 1072 pages .

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Bookseller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 47561
Title: The Abbot, in Three Volumes
Author: Scott, Sir Walter
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good-
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown
Place of Publication: Edinburgh
Date Published: 1820
Keywords: 19th Century Scottish Fiction, Scottish Historical Novelists, Sir Walter Scott's "Tales from Benedictine Sources"
Bookseller catalogs: GC: Fiction;
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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Marbled boards: ...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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...
New: A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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....