Works Of The Ettrick Shepherd: A New Edition Revised At The Instance Of The Author's Family Volumes I and II [complete]
by Hogg, James [aka The Ettrick Shepherd]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Blackie and Son , 1865 . Hardback. . 2 vols. 8vo half calf with maroon cloth boards. 5 raised bands and leather title/volume labels in compartments. Double column text and marbled page edges. Illustrated. With a memoir of the author by Rev Thomas Thomson. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Both vols. Good+ (corners bumped, boards scuffed, endpapers heaving foxed and sporadic lighter foxing throughout).
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Details
- Bookseller
- High Barn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45441
- Title
- Works Of The Ettrick Shepherd: A New Edition Revised At The Instance Of The Author's Family Volumes I and II [complete]
- Author
- Hogg, James [aka The Ettrick Shepherd]
- Format/Binding
- Hardback.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Blackie and Son
- Date Published
- 1865
- Pages
- 712 pp: 468 pp
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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Payment can be made by Paypal or sterling cheques drawn on UK banks. Books can be returned within 7 days of receipt by prior arrangement with seller.
About the Seller
High Barn Books
Biblio member since 2003
Lancaster, Lancashire
About High Barn Books
Small independent bookseller based in Lancashire UK.
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...