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The Bride of Lammermoor (Volume VIII of the Border Edition)
by Sir Walter Scott
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Macmillan and Co. Ltd, 1904. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1904. Reprinted. 466 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Edited by Andrew Lang. Volume VIII of the Border Edition. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to pastedowns and endpapers. Cracking and creasing to gutters of a few pages with exposed binding. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Light cracking to front hinge. Binding is shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Book is forward leaning. Light tanning to spine and edges.
Synopsis
The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). The novel tells of a tragic love affair between Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident. With A Legend of Montrose, the novel forms the third series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord; the two novels were published together in 1819. The story is the basis for Donizetti's 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1660335833LSA
- Title
- The Bride of Lammermoor (Volume VIII of the Border Edition)
- Author
- Sir Walter Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1904
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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