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Hesperides: or the Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick. Vol 1
by Robert Herrick, ESQ
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
LIttle Brown and company, 1856. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1856. No Edition Remarks. 340 pages. No dust jacket. Half bound leather with marbled patterned paper covered boards. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Volume I. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Moderate crinkling to paper at gutter. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed with visible markings throughout. Binding throughout is loose but pages remain attached. Pen and pencil inscription and markings to front free endpaper. Heavy water staining to bottom edge textblock. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Front board is detached from spine. Slight crushing and peeling to spine and corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate scuffing to edges. Visible wear marks to boards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1637683378CLB
- Title
- Hesperides: or the Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick. Vol 1
- Author
- Robert Herrick, ESQ
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- LIttle Brown and company
- Date Published
- 1856
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Bound
- ...
- 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....
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
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