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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Complete Edition, with Illustrations
by Scott, Sir Walter
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Steelton, Pennsylvania, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1873. This handsome edition of the complete poems of Scott is in Very Good condition (click on photo). The book is bound in a forest green cloth with a decorative gilt shield on the front panel and die-stamped gilt spine titles. The book features all-edge gilt and beveled edges. The spine tips show rubbing and fraying. The book has chocolate brown endpapers and a portrait of Scott with printed signature as a frontis, with tissue guard, as well as 11 other full-page illustrations throughout the book. The text is set in double columns with a red line border. The text is clean and bright throughout, with only minimal foxing, mainly on the blank pages opposite the acidic endpapers. There are no signatures or inscriptions from former owners. There is one pressed flower, which I've left. (What's a Victorian poetry book without at least one 134-year-old pressed flower?). The book measures 5 1/4 by 6 7/8 inches and includes 487 pages. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grimalkin Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001008
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Complete Edition, with Illustrations
- Author
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1873
- Keywords
- British Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Literature; Poetry;
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Grimalkin Books
Grimalkin Books is located in Steelton, Pennsylvania, the first town south of Harrisburg. We specialize in older, unusual books and sets, often literary, artistic, or historical. "Grimalkin" is old English for an old gray cat, mainly because the owner, Bob Amsel, is a cat lover. All books subject to prior sale. Payment must be received within 10 days of the order or item will be returned to stock. We accept money orders, bank checks, personal checks (allow time to clear), PayPal or MasterCard/Visa through Biblio's credit card processing service. International orders must be paid in US dollars and can be paid via PayPal, credit card (through ABE), or International Postal Money Order. Your purchase will be carefully packaged to protect it during shipping. Books may not be returned just because the buyer has changed his mind. Only books with actual defects that were not mentioned by the seller in the listing may be returned. Please insure returns for their full value.
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Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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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