The Diary of John Evelyn: Volme One
by EVELYN, John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
London: Dent, 1966. Hardcover. Edited by William Bray. Preface by Valerie Cromwell. 12mo. Purple cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. xxx, 406pp, 8pp ads. Decorative endpapers. Fine/very good. Faint jacket wear only, with scuff at upper right of front panel; small ownership signature on front pastedown. Tight and attractive copy of first volume (only, out of two) of #220 in the "Everyman's Library" series (first published in this form in 1907, revised 1952).
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47634
- Title
- The Diary of John Evelyn: Volme One
- Author
- EVELYN, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dent
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1966
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; British Literature;
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...