The French Revolution - A History
by Thomas Carlyle
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Griffith Farran Browne & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 569 pages. No dust jacket. Patterned blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and front. Pages are heavily marked with intense tanning and foxing, plus heavy thumbing. Foxing extremely intense towards the start and end of the book and on text block edges. Prize plate to front pastedown. Gutters heavily cracked with exposed netting. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards rather rubbed and marked overall. Spine is noticeably sunned. Book has a moderate forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed. Gilt is dulled and worn.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1655798567IEV
- Title
- The French Revolution - A History
- Author
- Thomas Carlyle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Griffith Farran Browne & Co.
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- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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....
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...