A DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS IN MOST FREQUENT USE, Taken chiefly from the Latin and French but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages, translated into English with illustrations historical and idiomatic
by MacDONNEL, D.E
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Tunbridge Wells , Kent, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: G.& W.B. Whittaker, 1819. 7th revised and corrected . Textured leather. Good+. 12.5 Cm x 18 Cm. viii+unpag.main text (signatures through to R 2); recently rebound in textured leather with new endpapers but no lettering on covers; my sm.label top fr.pastedown, orig.endpapers & t.p. foxed, with frequent but light spotting throughout, t.p.has faint water-stain across lower outer quarter and v.early sig. at top, easily eraseable pencil lines beside many entries - wearied of doing so myself but significantly reduced them! - a tiny thin cut piercing or denting lower part of pp. from the TO entries onwards, as if from a stab by a small sharp knife, but this actually of genuinely minimal significance, sl.gutter opening between pp. v & vi, which rebinding has secured. Quite acceptable despite faults.
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- Bookseller
- Douglas Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005072
- Title
- A DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS IN MOST FREQUENT USE, Taken chiefly from the Latin and French but comprising many from the Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages, translated into English with illustrations historical and idiomatic
- Author
- MacDONNEL, D.E
- Format/Binding
- Textured leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 7th revised and corrected
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- G.& W.B. Whittaker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1819
- Size
- 12.5 Cm x 18 Cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- DICTIONARIES, LANGUAGE, SAYINGS
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