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THE WORKS OF THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD Tales & Sketches (complete in Two volumes)
by Hogg, Thomas (The Ettrick Shepherd)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Blackie & Son, 1878. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Centenary Edition. 4to. pp. vol. I: viii, 711; vol. II: lxxi, 468; portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, engraved title & 19 plates to vol. I; frontispiece with tissue guard, engraved title and 23 plates to vol. II. Letterpress title pages to both volumes. Handsomely bound in half green calf with raised bands and contrasting red title labels to the spines; all edges marked red and blue. Binding very good with a little rubbing only. Contents very good and tight, prelims and last few pages foxed, slight spotting to page edges, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions. A very good set..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018988
- Title
- THE WORKS OF THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD Tales & Sketches (complete in Two volumes)
- Author
- Hogg, Thomas (The Ettrick Shepherd)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- Centenary Edition
- Publisher
- Blackie & Son
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1878
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literary Sets;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Loe Books
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About the Seller
Loe Books
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Launceston, Cornwall
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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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