New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1959. Hardcover. An examination of the great interest in the Americas as exhibited by Elizabeth I and her government. With 8 illustrations and maps. Mr. Rowse was a noted English Shakespearean scholar and also a scholar of the Elizabeth era. --- In linen-finish blue paper-covered boards backed in blue cloth, with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket with photographic portait of the author on the back cover. --- With dampstains to rear of volume and verso of jacket, interior is otherwise firm and clean. Unclipped dust jacket with chipping, rubbing and sizeable tears along edges and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); xiii, 222 pages .

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Bookseller: Bluebird Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 80847
Title: The Elizabethans and America
Author: ROWSE, A. L
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1959
Bookseller catalogs: >>American History & Politics; >>England, UK and UK History;

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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....
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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...
Verso: The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.