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A Book for Bookmen: Being Edited Manuscripts & Marginalia with Essays on Several Occasions
by Drinkwater, John
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London: Dulau & Company, 1926. Large Paper Edition, number 44 of 50 signed copies. 4to, 284pp., plates, fold-out facsimiles of manuscript material. Brown buckram, beveled edges, spine stamped in gilt. Near fine with light soiling to covers. Contains sections on Coleridge, including an unpublished letter, Milton, George D. Smith, and others.
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 4568
- Title
- A Book for Bookmen: Being Edited Manuscripts & Marginalia with Essays on Several Occasions
- Author
- Drinkwater, John
- Format/Binding
- 4to, 284pp., plates, fold-out facsimiles of manuscript material. Brown buckram, beveled edges, spine stamped in gilt. Near fine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Large Paper Edition, number 44 of 50 signed copies
- Publisher
- Dulau & Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1926
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GIG HARBOR, Washington
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- Beveled
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- Buckram
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- 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
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- Fine
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- 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...
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