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Notes By Lady Louisa Stuart on George Selwyn and His Contemporaries
by Heneage, Jesse John
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1928. Limited Edition. Fine in 1/4 white cloth and marbled paper covered boards with a printed paper label on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 3/4" by 7 1/2" with unopened pages. Without a dust jacket, but protected in a acetate covering. One of only 500 copies printed at the Merrymont Press of Boston with this copy noted as being number 250 on the limitation page. 65 pages including an index. Tipped-in are two leaves of a facsimile of Lady Louise Stuart's writing. Edited from the original manuscript by W. S. Lewis. Illustrated with a photogravure portrait.
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- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB26075
- Title
- Notes By Lady Louisa Stuart on George Selwyn and His Contemporaries
- Author
- Heneage, Jesse John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
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About the Seller
Town's End Books
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Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
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- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Leaves
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- Spine
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Fine
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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