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Treasured Thoughts from Favorite Authors
by Caroline May, ed
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Plano, Texas, United States
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About This Item
A beautiful collection of aphorisms and essays compiled by Caroline May, a 19th-century English-American editor and literary critic who was particularly interested in works by and the education of women. Brown cloth jacket with blind and gilt stamping on front and back, with texture and gild on spine.
Publication date listed as 1851 on title page and 1850 on copyright page. C. Sherman is printer.
Cover shows wear and bumping on edges and corners, with fraying on top and heel of spine. Pages are age tanned and foxed. Spine is cocked. Small writing in pencil throughout.
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- Bookseller
- PWK Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Y75
- Title
- Treasured Thoughts from Favorite Authors
- Author
- Caroline May, ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Lindsay and Blakiston
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- c 1850
- Pages
- 336
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- May
- Bookseller catalogs
- PWK Nonfiction; Women's History;
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About the Seller
PWK Books
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Plano, Texas
About PWK Books
Independent seller of antiquarian books. Prices as listed. PWK Books sells exclusively through Biblio.
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- Age Tanned
- Age tanning, or browning, occurs over time on the pages of books. This process can show up on just the edges of pages, when...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Copyright page
- The page in a book that describes the lineage of that book, typically including the book's author, publisher, date of...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- 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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