John Murray, 1862. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1862. No Edition Stated. 827 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound blue leather with pebbled cloth. Gilt titles and decorated compartments to spine. Engraved title page and frontispiece of the author. Text in two columns. Block edges are speckled red. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and thumbing. Foxing heaviest on title page and towards start and end of book. Gutters cracked with exposed netting. Text block firm. Frontispiece detached but present, with old tape to edge and heavily foxed. Faint creases to some pages. A few dog-eared corners. Boards have heavy edge wear, with bumping and fraying to corners, while spine ends are worn and rubbed. Leather sections scratched, rubbed and marked overall. Spine particularly rubbed. Gilt is bright. A few dents to rear board. Slightly scratched overall.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1624561726CLB
Title: The Poetical Works of Lord Byron
Author: Lord Byron
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: John Murray
Date Published: 1862

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Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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,...
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....
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....
Pebbled: Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
Half Bound: ...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
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...