Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1904. Hardcover. Deep aqua colored cloth hardbacks. Each volume is tightly bound with bright gilt to spine. Upper edge gilt with fore and bottom edges uncut. Very minor wear to edges. Each has FO plate to front pastedown with V. 1 having additional name in script to FFEP but no other marks. Very light age tanning to all. A nice set. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall .

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Bookseller: The Book Lady (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1207
Title: The Writings of John Burroughs in 15 Volumes
Author: Burroughs, John
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston
Date Published: 1904
Keywords: John Burroughs, Literature
Bookseller catalogs: Literature;
Note: May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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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...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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....
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...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
FFEP: A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...