Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux, with preface by Guy de Maupassant
by L'Abbe Prevost
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- , bottom corners rubbed, edges slightly rubbed, spine a little faded, book plate to front pastedown, a few faint foxing spots th
- Seller
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Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Published by H. Launette et Cie, Paris, 1889 Edition De Luxe. Hardback. , bottom corners rubbed, edges slightly rubbed, spine a little faded, book plate to front pastedown, a few faint foxing spots throughout, book in very good condition. Octavo (over 7-10 inches tall). , 207 pages with 22 introductory pages illustrated with 12 tissue guarded colour plates, black and white frontispiece, vignette title page each pagehead has a small engraved illustration and a red border, all text in French , half blue calf with marbled paper to boards, gilt title to spine, five raised bands, ribbon marker, marbled endpapers
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- Bookseller
- Keogh's Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16115
- Title
- Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux, with preface by Guy de Maupassant
- Author
- L'Abbe Prevost
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - , bottom corners rubbed, edges slightly rubbed, spine a little faded, book plate to front pastedown, a few faint foxing spots th
- Edition
- Edition De Luxe
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Published by H. Launette et Cie
- Place of Publication
- , Paris
- Date Published
- , 1889
- Keywords
- L\'Abbe Prevost, Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du Chevalier des Grieux, with preface by Guy de Maupassant, illustrated by Maurice Leloir
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Keogh's Books
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Skipton, North Yorkshire
About Keogh's Books
Keogh\'s books has been going for nineteen years now, but the shop in Nailsworth is just a year old. There is also a thriving market stall in Stroud on most Saturdays, and our website.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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....
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