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Poetical Works of Thomas Gray
by Gray, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Staten Island, New York, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1865. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, elaborately embossed green cloth with gold lettering and churchyard grave motif in gold on front cover. All edges gilt. 120 pages. Illustrated with engraved frontispiece and title-page, with 3 additional engraved plates. Reprint, originally published in 1858 by this publisher, albeit the first in this more elaborate publisher's binding. Private New Year gift inscription on first blank leaf after brown coated end-paper. Very mild rubbing to cloth and some slight wear to tips, but overall a nice example of mid-Victorian decorative binding. Interior text and illustrations clean and not foxed. Very good. .
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- Bookseller
- Great Expectations Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017372
- Title
- Poetical Works of Thomas Gray
- Author
- Gray, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Publisher
- E. H. Butler & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1865
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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About the Seller
Great Expectations Rare Books
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Staten Island, New York
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- Edges
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- New
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- Foxed
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
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