The Poetical Works of Longfellow
by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Henry Frowde, 1904. 1st ed. thus. Very Good. octavo. full leather 878pp., notes, Wesley College (Melbourne) Prize label dated 1906 on the front paste-down. Bound in red leather boards with a gilt representation of the college on the upper board. 5 raised bands at spine, marbled end papers & marbled edges. Boards a little rubbed o/w a very good copy
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 151528
- Title
- The Poetical Works of Longfellow
- Author
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- 1st ed. thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Frowde
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1904
- Size
- octavo
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About the Seller
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- 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...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...