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King Alfred's Versionof the Consolations of Boethius, Done into Modern English, with an Introduction
by Walter John Sedgefield (Trans)
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford at the Clarendon Pr, 1900. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1900. No Edition Remarks. 253 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Rough-cut pages. Book has a slight smoky odour. Moderate foxing and tanning to pages throughout. Gutters are cracked with the netting exposed but pages remain attached. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1665127650ADA
- Title
- King Alfred's Versionof the Consolations of Boethius, Done into Modern English, with an Introduction
- Author
- Walter John Sedgefield (Trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Oxford at the Clarendon Pr
- Date Published
- 1900
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Acceptable
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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,...
- 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....
- 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...
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