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FAMILIAR LETTERS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
by SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1894. TWO VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Marbled boards and matching endpapers. Panelled spines with gilt designs. Two brown leather spine labels. Volume 1 has frontispiece portrait of Scott and vignette title-page. Volume 2 has the vignette title-page. Large folding map facsimile of Abbotsford in 1811, hand-colored, at rear. Light foxing occasionally, mainly confined to preliminary pages. 445-435pp. A companion binding to our #014553. . First Edition. 1/2 Brown Morocco. Light edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Demy Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015454
- Title
- FAMILIAR LETTERS OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
- Author
- SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- David Douglas
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1894
- Size
- Demy Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Scott, Englisg Literature, Scottish Literature, Fine Binding, Mudie Binding
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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...
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