THE CALAMITIES AND QUARRELS OF AUTHORS : Some Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters, and Memoris for Our Literary History
by Disraeli, Isaac
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/No Jacket
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Routledge, Warnes & Routledge, 1859. Hardcover; 8vo; 552 pages. Full leather binding, tan calf with gilt lettering on a red crushed morocco label on spine. Five slightly raised bands, with gilt designs on five panels. Gilt crest on front. Blind borders on upper and lower boards, as well as a blind tooling on edges and turnover. Sppin eslightly dry. Light to moderately scuffed boards, edges rubbed. Edges of text block marbled, with matching marbled endpapers. Presentation plate on fep. Bright and clean interiors, well bound. A beautiful school-presentation copy, fairly well kept. VG+/--. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- J. Wyatt Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 225085
- Title
- THE CALAMITIES AND QUARRELS OF AUTHORS : Some Inquiries Respecting Their Moral and Literary Characters, and Memoris for Our Literary History
- Author
- Disraeli, Isaac
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Routledge, Warnes & Routledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- Literary Criticism
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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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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.,...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
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