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The Beauties of Festus

The Beauties of Festus

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The Beauties of Festus

by (Philip James Bailey, A Festonian)

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Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey and Co, 1848. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 1848, First Edition. 160 pp. Hardcover, 12mo., original green cloth, gilt design and title, aeg. Very Good copy. Light wear to corners and spine ends; minor discoloration; strong binding. Previous owner's small gift inscription on the fly leaf. Pages are lightly foxed, but the text has remained bold and readable. A scarce title - OCLC locates only 10 copies.

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Title
The Beauties of Festus
Author
(Philip James Bailey, A Festonian)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First edition
Publisher
Benjamin B. Mussey and Co
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1848

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AEG
All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
First Edition
In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
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...
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...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Foxed
Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...

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