a collection of six plays bound together - High life below stairs; three weeks after marriage; the tragedy of tragedies or the life and death of tom thumb the great; the guardian; the quaker a comic opera and the apprentice
by GARRICK, DAVID; MURPHY, ARTHUR; FIELDING, HENRY; DIBDIN, CHARLES;
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1805. . Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 16mo. - half leather over marbled paper covered boards - corners bumped with boards exposed - paper chipped to board edges - leather chipped and is creased and split to spine with partial loss to head of spine - boards toned and heavily rubbed - joints cracked and hinges breached but not open- spine cracked and loose signature to tom thumb -some minor scattered foxing - previous owners bookplate and name to front pastedown endpaper and list of titles written in ink to front free endpaper which is loose - bok ow solid and content is clean and unmarked -
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- Green Ink Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 623092
- Title
- a collection of six plays bound together - High life below stairs; three weeks after marriage; the tragedy of tragedies or the life and death of tom thumb the great; the guardian; the quaker a comic opera and the apprentice
- Author
- GARRICK, DAVID; MURPHY, ARTHUR; FIELDING, HENRY; DIBDIN, CHARLES;
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Date Published
- 1805
- Size
- No dustwrapper
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Hay on Wye, Powys
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- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
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