HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE
by Oliphant, Mrs
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Macmillan and Co., 1894.. 8vo. 381pp. 16 plates from portraits. Portrait frontis. Blue cloth. Lettering and decoration gilt; top edge gilt. Small book plate on front pastedown and ink name on half title. Rubbing to spine tips and corners. Inner leaf split over front . hinge; binding firm. An atrractive copy. Includes sketches on William Penn, Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Jonathan Swift and others..
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Details
- Bookseller
- About Books, ABAC (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4606
- Title
- HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE
- Author
- Oliphant, Mrs
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Macmillan and Co., 1894.
- Keywords
- History, British History, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- ABE;
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Owen Sound, Ontario
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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....
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.