Legends Of Charlemagne: Or Romance of the Middle Ages.
by BULFINCH, Thomas
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- Condition
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- Seller
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Beverly Hills, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: J.E. Tilton and Company, 1864. Octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 188 x 124 mm). xx, 373, [1, blank] pp. With black and white engraved plates, including frontispiece and numerous textual illustrations.
Full modern tan calf, ruled in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine heavily decorated in gilt. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Front board with some slight dampstaining. A very nice copy.
HBS 64645.
$250.
Full modern tan calf, ruled in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Spine heavily decorated in gilt. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Front board with some slight dampstaining. A very nice copy.
HBS 64645.
$250.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heritage Book Shop, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64645
- Title
- Legends Of Charlemagne
- Author
- BULFINCH, Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- J.E. Tilton and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1864
- Keywords
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About Heritage Book Shop, LLC
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- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- 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...