THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COLLINS: British Poets Collection
by William Collins
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. 150 p. + frontis illustration with tissue. 4 1/2 x 7 in. Dark brown cloth binding, gold printing on spine, some volumes in this series with label " Bound by B. Bradley and Co. Boston". Condition of each volume is VERY GOOD: wear and soiling to covers, corners lightly bent, spines chipping esp. at ends, light chipping to covers, edges of text block darkened- top edge a bit more so, pages clean- first and last few pages lightly foxed- frontis foxed, bindings tight.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3797
- Title
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COLLINS
- Author
- William Collins
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1854
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- E.P.
- The double leaves bound into a book at the front and rear after ...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....