Count Robert of Paris and the Surgeons Daughter
by Scott, Sir Walter
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Auckland, New Zealand
Item Price
£44.36£31.05
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, United Kingdom: Macmillan, 1901. This copy has been especially bound. Red leather with heavily gilt decorative tooling, spine title in black flag, 5 raised bands, front bd has heavy gilt embossing of school emblem showing rampant camels of Merchants Taylors School, edges are gilt gaffered, interior edges dentille tooled, page edges are marbled as are eps, presentaion plate is pasted to front paste down, damp stain to rear ep, two title page with nice frontis etching plus tissue guard, pp 854 with 10 nice etching. Interior clean bright and tight, not foxed.. Re-Issue. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariel Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6915
- Title
- Count Robert of Paris and the Surgeons Daughter
- Author
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Re-Issue
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- London, United Kingdom
- Date Published
- 1901
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ariel Books
Biblio member since 2003
Auckland
About Ariel Books
We are a small friendly book store stocking a unique selection of rare and out of print books. Currently we are searching for a suitable new location but have had an open book shop since 1998.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
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