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The Brownings: Their Life and Art
by Whiting, Lilian
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Seller
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1911. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, two portraits pasted-down on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. Generously illustrated with 32 Envravings, 2 Photogravures, and a Facsimile. . Spine mildly faded, former owner's printed bookplate on fep, brief gift inscription in pencil dated 5/25/12 on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. . Engravings, Photogravures, and Facsimile. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 304 pp .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 29728
- Title
- The Brownings: Their Life and Art
- Author
- Whiting, Lilian
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- 1st Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1911
- Keywords
- Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Art, Art History, Authors, Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Round Table Books, LLC
Biblio member since 2008
Palatine, Illinois
About Round Table Books, LLC
Round Table Books, LLC lists rare, beautiful and interesting books. All books are described accurately, packed carefully and shipped promptly. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED - Any book may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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