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A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, explained and made intelligible to the English reader.
by James Kelly:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: printed for William and John Innys, and John Osborn, 1721. First edition (hardback). 8vo (20cm by 13cm), [xiii], 400pp, 18pp index. Full brown calf. Binding worn with the front board detached, endpapers foxed, contents very good. This is the first edition from 1721, printed in London; there was also a Dublin edition printed in 1722, and a second edition (in a smaller font size), printed in London in 1818.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32196
- Title
- A Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, explained and made intelligible to the English reader.
- Author
- James Kelly:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: printed for William and John Innys, and John Osborn, 1721.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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- Foxed
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- 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...
- First Edition
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