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Memoirs of King Richard the Third and Some of His Contemporaries with an Historical Drama on the Battle of Bosworth
by Jesse, John Heneage
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Richard Bentley / Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty, 1862. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavo. 531 pages, indexed. Signed binding by Tout. Hardcover bound in full tan calf with raised bands on the spine. Six compartments on the spine with gilt tooling and with red and green lettering pieces. Gilt rules and corner stamps on the boards and gilt inner dentelles. Front hinge is rubbed. All edges brightly gilt. Signed (in type) at the top on the verso of the front flyleaf, "Tout Binder." Marbled endpapers. Text is clean. An attractive copy.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051177
- Title
- Memoirs of King Richard the Third and Some of His Contemporaries with an Historical Drama on the Battle of Bosworth
- Author
- Jesse, John Heneage
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley / Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1862
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1862; John Heneage Jesse; Richard III; Richard the Third; King; Tout Binding; Binder; Leather Binding; England; English; History; 19th Century; Rare; Collectible; Fine Binding; Great Britain.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Great Britain;
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- 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...
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