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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Harding and Lepard, 1827. Together with an account of polyglot Bibles, polyglot Psalters, Hebrew Bibles, Greek Bibles and Greek Testaments; the Greek fathers, and the Latin fathers. Fourth edition; greatly enlarged and corrected. In two volumes. Pp. [iv]+xiv+562+[iv]+580, 1 engraved plate and small mounted specimen leaf Volume I, corrigenda at end of Volume II; impl. 8vo; half dark green morocco, the spines lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled papered boards; edges slightly rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut and partly unopened; marbled endpapers; ribbon markers; bookplate on upper pastedowns, small catalogue slip tipped-in after upper free endpaper Volume I, large water stain to top fore-corner of the engraved plate and a couple of the surrounding leaves, a little light offsetting from the bookmarkers, scattered pale foxing; Harding and Lepard, London, 1827. Fourth edition, large paper copy (one of 250 thus). Windle & Pippin A3d. *Contains much information not found in earlier editions. The plate is a facsimile of a page from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, and the mounted specimen leaf is from Pickering's 1826 Diamond Edition of the Greek New Testament.
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- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 107222
- Title
- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF RARE AND VALUABLE EDITIONS OF THE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS
- Author
- Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harding and Lepard
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1827
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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About the Seller
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Melbourne, Victoria
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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