A FIRST SKETCH OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
by MORLEY. HENRY
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About This Item
Cassell & Company, Limited. 1892. Reprint. (Twenty-eighth thousand). 8vo. (7.3 x 4.9 inches). viii, 1104pp. Some light foxing to the last few pages of the index otherwise a very good bright copy in a fine decorative leather binding. Full tan mottled calf. Spine with raised bands, ruled in gilt. Red title label. Compartments ruled and decorated in gilt. Both boards with double ruled borders, the inner one with decorative corner pieces, al in gilt. the front board has the gilt stamped arms of the University of Oxford Examination board at Bath. marbled endpapers. The turn-ins double ruled and decorated with floral corner pieces. All edges gilt. Front paste down endpaper has a prize label, dated 1909, presenting this book from the Ladies Committee of the Oxford Local Examination board. A beautiful decorative leather binding.
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- Bookseller
- Paul Foster Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9843
- Title
- A FIRST SKETCH OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.
- Author
- MORLEY. HENRY
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cassell & Company, Limited. 1892
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- 0.00 lbs
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- Fine bindings;
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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....
- Gilt
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- Calf
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Reprint
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- Edges
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- Fine
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