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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects (Volume II Only)
by HUME, DAVID
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Hay on Wye, Powys, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1788. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 8vo. - TBound in tree calf boards w/ gilt decorations and red leather title label to spine - Missing the small green label with "2" on it - Upper board nearly detached - Corners bumped, crushed and little frayed w/ boards exposed - Edges heavily rubbed w/ boards exposed and gilt faded - Spine heavily rubbed w/ ends bumped and chipped w/ spine head missing including headband - Edges of text block toned and foxed - Previous owner's name in ink to front free endpaper - Endpapers unevenly tanned - Page margins and content toned - Book ow/ solid and clean - 587 pages
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- Bookseller
- Green Ink Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 635381
- Title
- Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects (Volume II Only)
- Author
- HUME, DAVID
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Date Published
- 1788
- Size
- No dustwrapper
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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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....
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Calf
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