Johnson's England: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age. 2 Volume Set.
by Turberville, A. S., editor
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1952. Second printing. Hardcover. Good in Good dust jacket. Two good octavo hardcovers in good dust jackets. Both volumes have light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to heads and heels of spines. Both djs have wear and rubbing along edges with many small tears and are scuffed on their covers and browned along edges and spines. Volume I's dj has small tear in middle spine. Crack in binding between frontispiece and title page of volume I. Page edges of both books are browned and foxed. Name of previous owner written on front free endpapers of both books. Volume I has 405 pages with illustrations, notes, and bibliographies. Volume II has 404 pages with illustrations, notes, bibliographies, and index. Special shipping rates for this two volume work.
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- Bookseller
- Motte & Bailey, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7442
- Title
- Johnson's England: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age. 2 Volume Set.
- Author
- Turberville, A. S., editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second printing
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1952
- Bookseller catalogs
- GREAT BRITAIN;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Motte & Bailey, Booksellers
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About Motte & Bailey, Booksellers
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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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