Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.: Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions
by LODGE, Edmund
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About This Item
London: Harding and Lepard, 1835. 12 vols. 4to. 240 engraved portrait plates with accompanying biographical essays, tissue guards, picked impressions of the plates. Near contemporary full pebbled red morocco, gilt, a.e.g.; occasional rubbing or scuffing to extremities, very infrequent and minimal foxing to plates, small dampstain to lower corner of portion of vol. IX textblock
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- Bookseller
- Bull's Head Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100637
- Title
- Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.
- Author
- LODGE, Edmund
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harding and Lepard
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1835
- Keywords
- sets
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...