Lavengro
by George Borrow
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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BACUP, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Lavengro; The Scholar – The Gypsy – The Priest by George Borrow (London: John Murray, 1st edition 1851).
Autobiographical novel and one of Borrow's most well known works.
Three volumes in a recent and unsophisticated half-leather binding with marbled paper boards. pp xx, 360, 32 catalogue + xi, 366, 32 catalogue + xi, 426, with frontispiece to vol. 1 and including half-titles to each volume. 8 x 5.25 inches approx. (207mm x 130mm).
Binding and boards a touch rubbed and marked, some scuffing to labels. Pages tanned and foxed, especially to first few and last few pages of each volume; occasional stain or grubby mark; some creasing to pages throughout, occasional short tear and small loss to corners; dusty.
Nonetheless, a good, solid set and reasonably attractive on the book shelf.
*International shipping rates are estimated and may incur an extra charge prior to order fulfillment. Books are despatched via Royal Mail International Tracked/Signed where available.*
Synopsis
Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest is a work by George Borrow, falling somewhere between the genres of memoir and novel, which has long been considered a classic of 19th century English literature. According to the author lav-engro is a Romany word meaning "word master". The historian G. M. Trevelyan called it "a book that breathes the spirit of that period of strong and eccentric characters".
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Details
- Bookseller
- D. B. Derbyshire Bookseller PBFA (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DBZ1031
- Title
- Lavengro
- Author
- George Borrow
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Date Published
- 1851
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature, George Borrow, Romany, Gypsies
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...