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PEVERIL OF THE PEAK
by SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Gentle Edge Wear/No Jacke
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh, London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1822. Four volumes uniformly bound. SIGNED BINDING BY TOUT AND SONS. Panelled spines with gilt floral designs. Covers bordered by gilt fillet, corner thistles, central thistle vignette. IThick inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Red silk book-marks sewn-in. Spines sunned to brown. Head of spines slightly frayed on two volumes only, several corners lightly worn. Rear cover of Volume 32shows areas of gridded darkening. In all, a lovely, mellowed set bound by a renowned binder. This set is EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with 31 plates. Bound with half-titles. Does not have errata slip in Volume 3. Point of issue in Volume 4, page 253, line 6 reads "Place and Whitehall". This was Scott's longest novel, one of the Waverley novels. The story involves Derbyshire at the time of the Popish Plot. See CBEL III, 673, Todd 165A. . First Edition. Full Olive Smooth Morocco. Very Gentle Edge Wear/No Jacke. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014103
- Title
- PEVERIL OF THE PEAK
- Author
- SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Gentle Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacke
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Archibald Constable and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh, London
- Date Published
- 1822
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Fine Binding, Tout Binding, Scott, Sets
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- 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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