The Mountain Bard & Forest Minstrel
by Hogg, James (The Ettrick Shepherd)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Bishop, California, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Handy Volume Poets; Caxton Press. Hardcover. Very good minus, good plus burgundy leather on boards with blind impression on cover, gilt stamping on spine and gilt edges. Rubbing to spine head and tail with quarter-inch tear at front top hinge; slight bow to cover. Romantic era frontispiece protected by tissue guard. Pages are clean throughout, frontmatter gathering has separated from book but still intact and attached. A collectible. ; 32mo 4" - 5" tall .
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- Bookseller
- Range & River Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31810
- Title
- The Mountain Bard & Forest Minstrel
- Author
- Hogg, James (The Ettrick Shepherd)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Handy Volume Poets; Caxton Press
- Publisher
- Porter & Coates
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Range & River Books
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Bishop, California
About Range & River Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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....