Macmillan and Co, 1899. Hardcover. Good. 1899. Reprint. 218 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Publisher's adverts to rear. Edited by C D Yonge. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Previous owner's inscriptions and stamps to both endpapers and pastedowns. Occasional minor marginalia and underlining. A few dog-eared corners. Text block edges are a little tanned and foxed. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Gilt is bright.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1625473101ADA
Title: Essays of John Dryden
Author: John Dryden
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Macmillan and Co
Date Published: 1899

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Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
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...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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....
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.