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Varia: Readings from Rare Books
by J. Hain Friswell
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Sampson, Low, Son & Marston , 1866. Hardcover. Fair. Curious volume of literary essays that seeks to describe books and authors that are well known but seldom read. Subjects include Nostradamus, George Psalmanazar, Paracelsus, Quevedo and others. Publisher's decorative cloth. Tissue guarded frontisportrait of Thomas Browne, another subject. Beveled edges, 12mo. Cloth tear to top of spine. Spine cocked. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Contents clean. Fair+
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005590
- Title
- Varia: Readings from Rare Books
- Author
- J. Hain Friswell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sampson, Low, Son & Marston
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1866
- Keywords
- literature, mystical, science, prediction, prophecy, spiritual, supernatural, essays, obscure, difficult.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
AJ Scruffles
Biblio member since 2010
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
About AJ Scruffles
AJ Scruffles is an online bookseller, based between Epping and Harlow. Our website also hosts an online magazine with reviews, articles and humour
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Fair+
- Used to describe a book in slightly better than Fair condition. Fair describes "a worn book that has complete text pages...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- 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....
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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