The Complete Writings (10 Vols.)
by Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rosemont, Pennsylvania
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$2,000.00
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1901. Contemporary blue morocco binding over blue marbled paper with matching endpapers. Spine gilt lettering and twining leaf decorations within 5 raised bands. Some sunning of spines and edgewear. TEG, other edges untrimmed. Blue silk markers all present. Prior owner armorial bookplate on front pastedown in each volume.. Cambridge Edition. Half-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Title Page ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- WN3121
- Title
- The Complete Writings (10 Vols.)
- Author
- Macaulay, Thomas Babington
- Format/binding
- Hardcover
- Book condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Cambridge Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date published
- 1901
- Size
- 8vo
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Rosemont, Pennsylvania
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About The Title Page ABAA
Approximately 60,000 books displayed in our storefront with another 50,000 in an available storage facility. It is a general, out of print, and antiquarian book store. A gem in the heart of Rosemont, we believe in personal service to the customer. We also search for books.
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- jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...[more]
- morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...[more]
- bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...[more]
- 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...[more]
- raised band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created...[more]
- 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....[more]
- marbled paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...[more]
- 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...[more]
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