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A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Chatto an Windus, 1883. Second edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. Half blue calf with marbled paper boards. 5 raised bands with gilt lettering and florels on spine. Matching marbled endpapers and sides of text block are gilt. Condition is VERY GOOD ; slight wear to corners and sides of spine. Spine gilt very nice, binding tight, text very clean with mild foxing to first and last pgs. Poetry. RGR.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6796
- Title
- A CENTURY OF ROUNDELS
- Author
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Chatto an Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1883
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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Andre Strong Bookseller
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Blue Hill, Maine
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- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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