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THE POETICAL WORKS OF WORDSWORTH.
by WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Slight Corner Wear, Rubbing./No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London, New York: Frederick Warne and Company, 1894. Panelled spine with gilt decorations.Red leather spine label. Covers bordered with gilt chains. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Light cover wear, few superficial scratches. Front joint weakened but intact. This is the so-called "Albion Edition" with memoir and explanatory notes. A nice example of this binding type, internally quite clean. 628pp.. Albion Edition. Full Tree-calf.. Slight Corner Wear, Rubbing./No Jacket. Thick Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 009417
- Title
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF WORDSWORTH.
- Author
- WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight Corner Wear, Rubbing.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Albion Edition
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Company
- Place of Publication
- London, New York
- Date Published
- 1894
- Size
- Thick Octavo
- Keywords
- Poetry, English Poetry, Fine Binding, Tree Calf
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
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
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- 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....
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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