The Merry Muses - A Choice Collection of Favourite Songs Gathered From Many Sources to Which are Added Two of His Letters and a Poem - Hitherto Suppressed - Never Before Printed
by Burns, Robert
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Cape Coral, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Privately Printed, 1827 "Not for Maids, Ministers or Striplings". Preface states "A very few copies have been printed, solely for antiquarios; and none of them are for sale" vi, 9 - 90 pages. Half blue leather and blue cloth. Five raised bands on spine. Stamped in gilt on spine. Top page edges gilt. Slim 12mo 7 3/8" tall x 4 7/8". Marbled endpages. Later rebind with "Gayntun, Binder, Bath, Eng" printed in very small letters at very top of front endpage. Rubbed a little at edges. Some very light foxing on endpages otherwise clean. Tightly bound. near Fine condition..
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- Bookseller
- Cultural Connection (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022235
- Title
- The Merry Muses - A Choice Collection of Favourite Songs Gathered From Many Sources to Which are Added Two of His Letters and a Poem - Hitherto Suppressed - Never Before Printed
- Author
- Burns, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Date Published
- 1827
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About the Seller
Cultural Connection
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Cape Coral, Florida
About Cultural Connection
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...