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Morning Exercises For The Closet: For Every Day In The Year. In Two Volumes. Ninth Edition.
by JAY, William:
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Hamilton Adams & Co., 1835 9th. Two volumes, hardback, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Halfbound brown calf and marbled paper to boards. Twin maroon leather spine labels lettered in gilt. Gilt and embossed decorations to spines. Full marbled page edges and endpapers. In good condition. Some slight rubbing to spines, some rubbing to paper on boards, corners bumped and slightly nicked. Thin chip to paper on front board of vol.1, and paper chipped on leading board edge. Neat inscription to front endpapers in both vols., “L.B. Vawdrey, Sept 1876, from W.S.V.” Contents pages a little pulled at front of vol.1 with some rubbing to page edges. Occasional pencil notes to margins of text. Some minor handling marks, one minor ink spot to edge of last couple of pages in vol2. Else clean and tight copies. 2 vols: 464 & 542pp.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94069
- Title
- Morning Exercises For The Closet: For Every Day In The Year. In Two Volumes. Ninth Edition.
- Author
- JAY, William:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Hamilton Adams & Co., 1835 9th
- Keywords
- RELIGION Fine Binding Religion Leather Binding Scripture
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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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....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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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