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THE JOURNAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AT ABBOTSFORD
by SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Minor Edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1890. TWO VOLUMES UNIFORMLY BOUND. Marbled boards with matching endpapers. Panelled spine with gilt decorations, two brown leather spine labels. SIGNED BINDING by Mudie. Both volumes have portrait frontispieces with captioned tissue-guards. Title-page vignettes. Volume 1 has folding map at p.414 with 2 small tears, no paper loss. Owner's signature in a small neat hand on front preliminary page each volume. Sme occasional light foxing, never heavy. A very nice two-volume set by a famous binder. 416, 517pp. A companion binding to our #015454.. First Edition. 1/2 Brown Morocco. Minor Edge and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Demy Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015453
- Title
- THE JOURNAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AT ABBOTSFORD
- Author
- SCOTT, SIR WALTER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Minor Edge and Corner Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- David Douglas
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1890
- Size
- Demy Octavo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Walter Scott, English Literature, Scottish Literature, Fine Binding
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Marbled boards
- ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
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