POEMS BEFORE CONGRESS
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 7 3/4 in. viii, 65 pgs, plus list of Mrs. Browning's books, plus 32 advert pgs. Red embossed cloth with gilt lettering on cover. Brown endpapers. Initial pg is blank, as a true first. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and edges bumped and worn, cover clean, spine darkened with spot at top. Front hinge is cracked on the inside, with endpaper almost detached, but binding remains solid. Text very clean. Previous owner, prof Victor Lange's, bookplate on front pastedown. Top edge of text block darkened. Poetry. RGRR.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20387
- Title
- POEMS BEFORE CONGRESS
- Author
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Blue Hill, Maine
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...