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THE WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN. VOLUME XIV. PLAYS: THE KIND KEEPER, THE SPANISH FRYAR, THE DUKE OF GUISE, AND THE VINDICATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE by Dryden, John. Edited by Vinton A. Dearing and Alan Roper
- Bookseller: Commonwealth Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 704191
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992
Description
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992. 8vo. Cloth. viii, 638 pp. Dust jacket lightly soiled, with 1/4"-long closed tear to rear cover. Shelfwear. Very good in like dust jacket.
dust jacket : A protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
soiled : Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
shelfwear : Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
closed tear : A tear in which no material has been lost.
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