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THE PRINCE OF PLEASURE and His Regency 1811-20
by PRIESTLEY, J. B
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Good
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 4to - over 9. Harper & Row, 1970. Second Printing. Hardcover Book in Fine Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Archival protective cover. Lavishly illustrated with 44 color plates plus many b/w iillustrations. Beautiful large book. Printed in England. Bound in full red cloth with gilt trim design on front near spine, gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Clean, bright, unmarked, untorn. Tight and solid. Endpapers in burgundy and white wallpaper design. Frontis: in full color, full page illustration of The Prince Regent in Garter Robes, 1819, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, oil on canvas; verso of frontispiece is a plate of a Snuff-box believed to have been presented to the 1st Duke of Wellington by the Prince Regent. Jacket is clean and bright and unsoiled; not clipped. Upper corner has an irregular shaped piece tornout, lower spine end is chipped, edgewear on upper edge, a piece torn out along the upper edge from the spine around the back side. Protected with a mylar cover and quite attractive. Former owner signature on overflap. 304 pages. 8.5x 10.5 inches. 1970, Harper & Row, New York, N.Y., U.S.A. REGENCY PERIOD-GREAT BRITAIN. HISTORY, GREAT BRITAIN; ENGLAND;
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004179
- Title
- THE PRINCE OF PLEASURE and His Regency 1811-20
- Author
- PRIESTLEY, J. B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 4to - over 9
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- REGENCY PERIOD, ENGLAND HISTORY, ROYALTY, WATERLOO BYRON SCOTT, SIR WALTER PRINCE REGENT HAZLITT, WILLIAM BROUGHAM, HENRY PETER CAROLINE, AMELIA ELIZABETH, OF BRUNSWICK
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Great Britain;
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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