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The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams (In Two Volumes)
by FIELDING, HENRY
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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
1742. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. 12mo. - Second Edition - In Two Volumes - Bound in leather w/ gilt borders and the 5 raised bands to the spine - Covers are heavily marked and worn w/ chips to edges and corners - Edges rubbed and corners worn w/ boards exposed - Spine ends chipped w/ tiny areas missing and some breaches to spine ends - Spine of Vol I cracked and w/ significant split to spine tail - Front joint of Vol II split but board still attached - Edges of text block tanned w/ marks and stains to fore and bottom edges particularly of volume one - Ex-Libris sticker of Ian Jack, professor at Cambridge, to front pastedown of both volumes - Endpapers heavily tanned and foxed - Hinges breached but not open - Content heavily toned, grubby and foxed throughout - Books ow/ solid - A nice example of one of the earliest novels in English - xxii/308 vii/304 pages
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- Green Ink Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 635081
- Title
- The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams (In Two Volumes)
- Author
- FIELDING, HENRY
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Date Published
- 1742
- Size
- No dustwrapper
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- 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...
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