The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
by James Boswell
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Charles Dilly, 1785. Half brown leather & brown cloth over boards, gilt spine title & decoration, & raised bands; Freshly rebound by Jon Buller; A fine binding over a just very good text block with glue shadow to mostly margins of title page; 534 pages + 1 leaf of publisher advertisement.. 5"x8".
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- Bookseller
- White Raven Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DG9021
- Title
- The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.
- Author
- James Boswell
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Dilly
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1785
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel; Literature to 1900;
- Size
- 5"x8"
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- Cloth
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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...
- 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....
- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- 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....
- Fine Binding
- An elaborate and decorative binding, example including a leather-bound book with gilt edges, raised blind stamps, raised ribs,...