The Life of St Columba
by John Smith
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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St Margarets Hope , Orkney, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Full title: The Life of St Columba, the Apostle and Patron Saint of the Ancient Scots and Picts, and Joint Patron of the Irish: Commonly called Colum-Kille, the Apostle of the Highlands.
First edition, pp. IX 168 +10pp.
Half bound in leather with marbled boards. Edges rubbed with shelf wear. Some foxing to early pages. Book in very good condition with tight binding. A nice copy of an uncommon first edition.
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- Bookseller
- Boreas Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Biblio15
- Title
- The Life of St Columba
- Author
- John Smith
- Format/Binding
- Half bound in green leather.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Mundell & Son
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1798
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Christianity Colum-Kille Apostle Ireland Picts Patron Saint
- Bookseller catalogs
- Theology;
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marbled boards
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- First Edition
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