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The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert (Vol. III: Prose)
by George Herbert
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Printed for Private Circulation, 1874. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1874. No Edition Remarks. 503 pages. No dust jacket. Pink cloth with black and white illustrations throughout. Volume III. Heavy tanning to pages with heavier tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Pen inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper and rough cut edges to text block. Both hinges are cracked with exposed netting and cracks to guttering with exposed netting. Binding is loose. Boards have heavy rubbing and sunning with noticeable bumping to corners. Major sunning to spine and heavier crushing to spine ends. Splitting to joints as well.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1633959213BWT
- Title
- The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert (Vol. III: Prose)
- Author
- George Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Printed for Private Circulation
- Date Published
- 1874
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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