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The Four Georges. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century.
by Thackeray, W. M
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869. Lives of the Kings George of England, and fellow satirists Swift, Congreve & Addison, Steele, Prior Gay & Pope, Hogarth Smollett & Fielding, Sterne & Goldsmith; one of a set of Thackeray's works. Hardcover, full green cloth heavily embossed with gilt titling & decoration. General wear, spine ends frayed & torn, spine & lower front board lightly darkened & rubbed; free endsheet & flyleaf tanned, rubberstamped name on half-title; light waterstaining to page edges. Text clean; [8], 362 pages + list of the other titles in the set; portraits.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Octavo.
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- Bookseller
- Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p1268
- Title
- The Four Georges. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century.
- Author
- Thackeray, W. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Smith, Elder & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1869
- Keywords
- England, English Literature, Biography, Literary Criticism, Royalty, Great Britain
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
All books are subject to prior sale, though we make every effort to keep our inventory current. Books are returnable within ten days with prior notification. We will request extra shipping for large books and sets going to addresses outside the United States.
About the Seller
Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Biblio member since 2006
Beloit, Wisconsin
About Bookworks MWABA, IOBA
Most of our stock is on-line only, though we have many books in three booths at Angela's Attic Antique Mall, 1020 Gardner Street in South Beloit, Illinois; a booth across the street at the Best of Beloit; and a large booth at the Lake Geneva Antique Mall, 829 Williams Street, Lake Geneva, WI. You may request to see any of our on-line inventory at any location with a few days' notice.
Glossary
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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
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- 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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