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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose
by Charles Mackay
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons, [1890]. Leather. Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None . Collection of English prose classics selected and arranged by Charles Mackay. Dated via Jisc. Containing a vast selection of English prose including extracts from pieces by the most celebrated writers of English prose, from the days of Queen Elizabeth to those of Queen Victoria. Including writings of Lord Bacon, William Wordsworth. John Evelyn, Leigh hunt, &c. &c. Selected and arranged by Charles Mackay, Scottish poet and journalist best remembered for his book 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.' Rebound in half calf over marbled boards, gilt tooling to spine, marbled edges and endpapers. Externally sound with minor shelf wear, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, boards lightly marked. Internally, firmly bound. Odd faint minor spotting to odd leaf, pages otherwise generally bright and clean throughout. Very Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 852A1
- Title
- A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose
- Author
- Charles Mackay
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- [1890]
- Size
- 7" by 4.5"
- Keywords
- gems english prose english literature leather bindings english prose
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Marbled boards
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- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat 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...
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