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Italy, A Poem
by Rogers, Samuel
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Aiken, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jennings and Chaplin, and E. Moxon, 1830. 8vo, 284pp, fine binding of elaborately tooled gilt and morocco, with spine in six compartments, gilt text block edges, and marbled endpapers. About very good with foxing and toning to pages, leather rubbed and worn along spine ends and corners, contemporary ownership inscription to front endpaper, damp stain to outer margins of some leaves, one leaf with old paper repair along margin, slight musty odor.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Caroliniana
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5000
- Title
- Italy, A Poem
- Author
- Rogers, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed for T. Cadell, Jennings and Chaplin, and E. Moxon
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1830
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Caroliniana
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About the Seller
Caroliniana
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Aiken, South Carolina
About Caroliniana
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...
- 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....
- 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...
- 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....
- 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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