Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd, 1909. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1909. No Edition Remarks. 284 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and pen markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Pencil annotations and marginalia to a few pages. Rough cut pages with top textblock edge dyed gilt. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1690292215CRD
Title: Eighteenth Century Essays
Author: Austin Dobson (Sel.)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co Ltd
Date Published: 1909

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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...
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Marginalia: Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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...
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....