Poetical Works
by Bridges Robert
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Ambleside, Cumbria, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Oxford University Press, 1913 Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece; All Bridges' poems and masks, "excluding the eight dramas"; Leather-Bound Hardback: quarter blue polished calf on blue patterned boards, spine panelled with raised bands, top edge gilt, school prize bookplate to front pastedown and gilt device to top board, signed binding (Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London); Spine faded and rubbed, end-papers and prelims foxed, g
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- Bookseller
- Bookfare
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10029
- Title
- Poetical Works
- Author
- Bridges Robert
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1913
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- Sangorski & Sutcliffe Leather Bindings Leather Bound
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Ambleside, Cumbria
About Bookfare
Established 1977. Having run shops in Edinburgh and Windermere for twenty-five years, Bookfare is now postal business only.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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....
- Device
- Especially for older books, a printer's device refers to an identifying mark, also sometimes called a printer's mark, on the...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
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