Chronicles of the Bastile, First Series: The Bertaudiere: An Historical Romance
by Chamerovzow, Louis Alexis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
T. C. Newby, 1845. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. 1845 T. C. Newby, 72, Mortimer St., Cavendish Square, London. First Edition. Later binding by Riviere and Son in full brown leather with gilt ruled borders. Five raised bands on spine with elaborate gilt devices in five of the six panels and gilt title in one panel. Tail of spine has "LOND. 1845". Gilt inner dentelle borders; binding signed "Bound by Riviere & Son" at bottom inside edge of front cover. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Black and white illustrated plates by Robert Cruikshank. Dark blue-green coated endpapers. Black and white frontispiece. Includes the story "The Iron Mask, an Episode" at the back. NOT ex-library. Leather lightly worn at corners and spine ends; rubbed through on a few tips. Covers have light surface and edge wear with a few very light smudges. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. A few small notations in pencil on front and back flyleaves. Pages clean and unmarked. A few pages have very sparse foxing. 640 pages. Also bound in at rear; Thin, light blue original paper covers from Part III, March 1844 of the Chronicles. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box. This item will be shipped with signature confirmation required.
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7986
- Title
- Chronicles of the Bastile, First Series: The Bertaudiere: An Historical Romance
- Author
- Chamerovzow, Louis Alexis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- T. C. Newby
- Date Published
- 1845
- Keywords
- Fiction,France
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; France;
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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....
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Dentelle
- Borders on the inner edge of a book with a lacy pattern, most often gilt. Popular in France during the 18th century on covers of...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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