The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate
by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: MacMillan, 1895. Very Good. octavo. full leather viii + 900pp., frontis., indexes, Full leather with raised bands at spine, spine label, fine gilt inner dentelles, marbled end papers, all edges gilt. Front board is decorated with a beautiful & detailed flower painting covering half the available area. Some wear to boards, small split at junction of spine & upper board, scuffing to lower gilt edge of text block & neat ownership inscription o/w nice tight copy exceptionally decorated. PHOTO available
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- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127408
- Title
- The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet Laureate
- Author
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- MacMillan
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- octavo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Andrew Barnes Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
MELBOURNE, Victoria
About Andrew Barnes Booksellers
We are a general, Internet only bookseller with 25 years experience, specialising in Military & Russian material. We have operated on-line for 9 years
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- O/W
- An abbreviation for otherwise
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- 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....
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