A Faithful Servant
by Jean Baptiste Clery
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1874 Book. Fair. Decorated Brown Boards. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Diary kept by a servant to the French King, Louis XVI, and his family, during the months leading up to the monarch's execution in the first French Revolution. One Shilling Books series. 127pp illustrated with colour drawing to frontis. Gilt lettering and black design to top board and spine. Some bumping and rubbing to spine and corners, tape repairs to hinges, internal hinges pulling and page edges darkened, otherwise fair reading copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016057
- Title
- A Faithful Servant
- Author
- Jean Baptiste Clery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1874
- Size
- 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
About Washburn Books
Washburn Books is a small family business, based in Yorkshire. We offer a wide variety of hard-to-find and out-of-print books in our virtual store, as well as an offline search service. We take pride in our fast delivery of well packaged books.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- 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....