The Keepsake: A Memento of Esteem and Affection Comprising the Choicest Productions of the Most Beautiful Writers
by Anon
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Item Price
$31.74$25.40
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About This Item
London: Kershaw and Son Book. Fair. Blue Cloth Boards. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Undated anthology of verse and prose on various subjects, including love, family life and the Holy Family, by Sir Walter Scott and others, many unattributed. 256pp illustrated with 2 monochrome plates. Gilt design and lettering to spine, all edges gilt, blind stamped design to boards. Some bumping and rubbing to spine and corners, light foxing to pastedowns, ffep missing, otherwise fair uninscribed copy..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012731
- Title
- The Keepsake: A Memento of Esteem and Affection Comprising the Choicest Productions of the Most Beautiful Writers
- Author
- Anon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Kershaw and Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthologies;
Terms of Sale
Washburn Books
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About the Seller
Washburn Books
Biblio member since 2010
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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- 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....
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....