London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1966. Book. Good. Cloth. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine and cover. Condition: Good, binding sound, text clean. Inscription to previous owner on fep. Dustjacket condition: Fair, lightly shelfworn with sunning to spine and jacket edges. Not price-clipped. 633pp. In this selection, the editors aimed to lay greater emphasis on verse written in Scots as opposed to English and also tried to give as fair a representation to verse written before 1603 as to that which came afterwards. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bookseller: Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 002075
Title: The Oxford Book of Scottish Verse
Author: MacQueen, John and Scott, Tom (ed.)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Good
Jacket Condition: Fair
Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1966
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
Keywords: WILLIAM DUNBAR JOHN BARBOUR ALLAN RAMSAY
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry;

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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...
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...
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....
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...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....