Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli; A New Edition edited by his son the Right Hon. B. Disraeli [2 volumes] [provenance: Morris Morgan]
by Disraeli, Isaac; Disraeli, Benjamin, ed
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About This Item
Cambridge: Privately printed, Riverside Press, 1864. Hardcover. Very Good -. 2 volumes (419, 453 p.); 23 cm. Half calf with gilt-tooled spine title. Red-brown paper over boards. Top page edges gilt. Pale yellow endpapers. Title page printed in red and black, with vignette. On each front fixed endpaper is the armorial bookplate of Morris Morgan (with griffin, stag's head, and 3 cupids, and the Morgan family motto "Fama praestante praestantior virtus"). In Very Good- Condition: heavily rubbed; old repair at vol. 1 head of spine; some browning of pages; clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
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- Title
- Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli; A New Edition edited by his son the Right Hon. B. Disraeli [2 volumes] [provenance: Morris Morgan]
- Author
- Disraeli, Isaac; Disraeli, Benjamin, ed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Privately printed, Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1864
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books & Printing; European History;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
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- Title Page
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- Calf
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- Vignette
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- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....