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The Scottish Orpheus: A Collection of the Most Admired Songs of Scotland
by Hamilton, Adam (Compiler)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Paterson & Sons. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. Fair ; No jacket. Paterson & Sons, no date (ca. 1900). Hardcover book has thin brown pebble-texture leatherette cloth-covered boards with gold cover lettering. No title on spine. All page edges gilt. Endpapers have overall pattern of brown flowers. One full-page yellow, black, & white illustration for the first song: "The Auld House O' Gask". Bottom outer corner of front cover is creased; board is cracked, as well as endpaper. Covers rubbed. Corners and spine ends bumped and rounded; frayed in spots. Front hinge cracked with webbing quite visible. Bottom 2 inches of front free endpaper partially detached. Name and date (1910), and 'Glasgow Scotland' in pencil on verso of front free endpaper. Pages tanned, but unmarked. A few pages are dog eared. Several cracks in binding between signatures, but no pages loose. 223 pages plus 5 pages of publisher's advertisements. No dust jacket. "Arranged for medium voices with pianoforte accompaniment."
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1612
- Title
- The Scottish Orpheus: A Collection of the Most Admired Songs of Scotland
- Author
- Hamilton, Adam (Compiler)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Paterson & Sons
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Folklore and Mythology,Music
- Bookseller catalogs
- Music; Folklore and Mythology;
Terms of Sale
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...
- 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....
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