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Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
by Thomas Gray
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Condition/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Warwick, New York, United States
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About This Item
John Van Voorst, London, 1834. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. THOMAS GRAY. Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard, London: John Van Voorst, 1834. Octavo, illustrated edition, unpaginated, purple cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front, engravings after various artists including Constable and the Landseers. Some of the most famous verses in the English language accompanied by vignette images selected by the editor, John Martin. Condition of this book: Spine cloth splitting at front joint but binding is sound. Covers browning, leaves age-toning. Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; England; 19th century; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 54573. .
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- Bookseller
- Rarities etc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54573
- Title
- Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
- Author
- Thomas Gray
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover (Original Cloth)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Van Voorst
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1834
- Keywords
- BZDB17 Poetry; England; 19th century; Art & Design. Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard
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Warwick, New York
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
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