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Legends and Lyrics
by Procter, Adelaide Anne
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No dust jacket.
- Seller
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Bell & Sons, 1880. Hardback. Good/No dust jacket.. George Bell & Sons, Covent Garden, London, 1880. Book condition: good. Some light tanning to page edges and a little light spotting here and there. One page (162) has separated from binding. A little scuffing & bumping to corners, also to head & tail of spine. Full padded blue Morocco binding with five raised bands to spine. Gilt titles to spine, gilt titles and decoration to front. All edges gilt. Decorated end papers, tissue guarded b&w frontispiece. This edition appears to have been specially bound for Oxford High School and the front cover also bears the legend "Girls Public Day School Company Limited". The GPDSC was active between 1872 and 1905 and was established to raise capital to establish academic high schools for girls with a focus on high academic standards and Oxbridge entrance exams. This pleasing volume has an introduction by Charles Dickens and has 264 pages of uplifting content.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1302583
- Title
- Legends and Lyrics
- Author
- Procter, Adelaide Anne
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Bell & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1880
- Keywords
- Miscellaneous,Charles Dickens,Adelaide Anne Procter
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miscellaneous;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Ariadne Books
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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Glossary
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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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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