Miniature Poets - Eight Volumes Boxed
by John Milton, William Wordsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Sir Walter Scott
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paternoster row, London: W. Kent & Co. , 1880. Eight miniature volumes of the work of four celbrated poets. In the original box : The Poetical Works of John Milton in 2 Volumes; Poems of Wordsworth in 2 Volumes; Poems of Longfellow in 2 Volumes and Sir Walter Scott's poems in in 2 volumes.The books are all bound in green cloth with gilt lettering on the spines, all edges are gilt.With floral decorated endpapers.Measuring 2.7 X 4,25 inches. Housed in the original green cloth bound box with gilt lettring on the lid.The books are all in very good condition. The box is rubbed and a bit marked with two untidy repairs to the lid where the cloth had split along the hinge,and also along the flap. The box measures 6.5 X 4.75 X3.25 inches. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jacques Gander (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009859
- Title
- Miniature Poets - Eight Volumes Boxed
- Author
- John Milton, William Wordsworth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Sir Walter Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- W. Kent & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Paternoster row, London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jacques Gander
Biblio member since 2004
Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire
About Jacques Gander
Out of print, rare and used books. Internet and mail order.
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- 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
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- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Miniature
- A book that is less then 3 inches in width and ...