France in 1829-30
by Lady Morgan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Ontario, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Saunders and Otley, 1831. Second Edition. HB. In two volumes. Half brown leather over marbled boards, four raised bands, gilt lettering on spine, 8vo., Volume I 527 pp., Volume II 590 pp., all edges of text block marbled. Both volumes uniformly show minor edge wear, lower corners worn and bumped. Owners bookplate ffep of each volume, reading society book plate on front paste-down. Very minor foxing to preliminaries. A nice looking set. Stated second edition. Book condition VG.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Parker's Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BM3775
- Title
- France in 1829-30
- Author
- Lady Morgan
- Format/Binding
- HB
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Saunders and Otley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1831
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Parker's Rare Books
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About the Seller
Parker's Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Ontario, Wisconsin
About Parker's Rare Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- 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...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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