The Monastery; The Abbot, Being a Sequel to The Monastery (Waverley Novels)
by Scott, Walter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Gastonia, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1885. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 403, 430 pp. Very light rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt titles and decorations. Part of a uniform set of Scott's Waverley novels.
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- Bookseller
- Persephone's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 048709
- Title
- The Monastery; The Abbot, Being a Sequel to The Monastery (Waverley Novels)
- Author
- Scott, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1885
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Literature - English
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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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