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The Boy's Percy Being Old Ballads of War, Adventure and Love from Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Together With An Appendix Containing Two Ballads From the Original Percy Folio MS
by Thomas Percy | Sidney Lanier (Edited for boys with an Introduction by) | E.B. Bensell (With Fifty Illustrations from original designs by)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. Hardcover. Early Printing. 5.25 x 7.75in. xxxi. 441pp. Publisher's decorative cloth boards. VERY GOOD. Shows marginal loss from the head and foot of the spine and corners, former owner bookplate on the front paste-down, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text and illustrations are clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.
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- Bookseller
- North Books: Used & Rare
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29435
- Title
- The Boy's Percy Being Old Ballads of War, Adventure and Love from Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry Together With An Appendix Containing Two Ballads From the Original Percy Folio MS
- Author
- Thomas Percy | Sidney Lanier (Edited for boys with an Introduction by) | E.B. Bensell (With Fifty Illustrations from original designs by)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1884
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About the Seller
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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