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The Lord of the Isles
by SCOTT, Sir Walter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1857. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1857 [first thus]. Octavo, [iv], 367 pages with numerous illustrations (wood engravings by J.W. Whymper and Edmund Evans from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert) plus a frontispiece and supplementary engraved pictorial title page (after J.M.W. Turner). Contemporary gilt-decorated full dark green morocco, all edges gilt; extremities a little rubbed (mainly the corners and the front joint); sides slightly scuffed and lightly marked; spine sunned (to olive-green); endpapers slightly marked and a little discoloured around the edges (where in contact with the turned-over leather); a very good copy with the armorial bookplate of J.P. Campbell. A poem in six cantos on Robert Bruce, first published in 1815; this edition, 'as we now have it in the Author's MS' is published 'with all his introductions, and the editor's notes'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 75752
- Title
- The Lord of the Isles
- Author
- SCOTT, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1857
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
Adelaide, South Australia
About Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers
The business was established in Adelaide in March 1976 and is a longstanding member of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (ANZAAB) and the Australian Antique Dealers Association (AADA). A large out-of-print and antiquarian stock is maintained at our retail outlet in the centre of Adelaide; mail-order catalogues of our specializations are issued and a representative selection of our stock is online.
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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