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The History Of England. From The Accession Of James The Second. Ninth Edition. In Five Volumes.
by MACAULAY, LORD:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Longmans, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1853 9th. Five Volumes. Hardback, 9 x 5.5 inches. Halfbound leather fine bindings with marbled paper to boards. Raised banding and full gilt decorations to spines with red and green leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers and page edges. In very good conditions. Some rubbing to edges, small nicks to corners on vols 1 & 3. Some rubbing to spine and ends with small nick to top end of vol.4. Endpapers clean. Some mild foxing to prelims in vol.5. Deleted and faint inscriptions to title pages in vols 1 & 2, with small rubbed hole in vol.1. “John Watson, 1855.” Some occasional foxing spots and handling marks to pages. Some minor staining to page edges in volume 2 (around p700.) Else a very good clean and tight set. 5 volumes: Contents + 684, 680, 764, 836 & 398pp. (No illustrations in this set.)
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 93326
- Title
- The History Of England. From The Accession Of James The Second. Ninth Edition. In Five Volumes.
- Author
- MACAULAY, LORD:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Longmans, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1853 9th
- Keywords
- HISTORY MACAULAY, LORD, The History Of England, Accession Of James The Second, In Five Volumes, Longmans, Green & Co., leather, fine binding, Military, War, Parliament, Kings, 1853, 9th
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
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