Wenderholme; a Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire [3 Volumes].
by Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Lancaster, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons. Good with no dust jacket. 1869. First Edition. Hardcover. Three volume set. First edition. Hard covers published by William Blackwood and Sons in 1869. No dust jackets. Three-quarter leather with marbled boards and 5 raised bands and gilt lettering on each spine. Edges of spines are rubbed and worn, corners of covers are bumped and worn, with some splitting, and ends of spine have some wear. Marbled endpapers, and each inside front cover has a bookplate. Top edges of pages are gilt-covered. Pages have some tanning and some pages have staining. Leather on the upper back corner of Vol. 3 is torn. Books are in good minus condition. 1067 pages, 3.6 lb. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MSH8442
- Title
- Wenderholme; a Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire [3 Volumes].
- Author
- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1869
- Keywords
- Lancashire, Yorkshire, English History, England, English Literature
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
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Biblio member since 2011
Lancaster, Texas
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- 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...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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