THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF HENRY CLAY, DOWN TO 1848.
by SARgent, Epes
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light Edge Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller, 1852. Spine lettere3d in gilt, lightly faded. Frontispiece portrait with tissue-guard. 492pp. Endpapers foxed, clean through the text. Henry Clay (1777-1852) was an American statesman and orator. He served in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, where he was Speaker. . Third Thousand. Blue Embossed Cloth.. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012734
- Title
- THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICES OF HENRY CLAY, DOWN TO 1848.
- Author
- SARgent, Epes
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Third Thousand
- Publisher
- Derby and Miller
- Place of Publication
- Auburn, NY
- Date Published
- 1852
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- American History
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
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Prairie Village, Kansas
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We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- 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...