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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, with a biographical Sketch of De Foe, written expressly for this edition, and illustrations from original designs [2 vols]
by Defoe, Daniel
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: Cochrane and Pickersgill, 1831. Hardcover. Good +. 2 volumes: [4], lxiv, 327, [1] p.; [4], 324 p., 2 frontispieces, 15 leaves of plates; 17 cm. Contemporary half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title and volume numbers on spine. All page edges speckled red. In Good+ Condition: rubbed with loss of gilt on spine; lacking 2.5 cm. of leather from tail of vol. 1; occasional foxing, heavy on a few pages and plates; otherwise, clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004516
- Title
- The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, with a biographical Sketch of De Foe, written expressly for this edition, and illustrations from original designs [2 vols]
- Author
- Defoe, Daniel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Cochrane and Pickersgill
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1831
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
Classic Books and Ephemera
Biblio member since 2006
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- 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....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
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