THE LADIES' REPOSITORY, AND GATHERINGS OF THE WEST: A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEOTED TO LITERATURE AND RELIGION. Volume VI [and] VII
by Tefft, B. F. (editor)
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- first
- Condition
- Good+ binding
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Cincinnati: L. Swormstedt and J. T. Mitchell, 1847. Full Leather. Good+ binding. Octavo. iv, 380, iv, 379, [1] pp., plates. In contemporary red morocco with decorative gilt on both covers and spine and previous owner name stamped in gilt on the front board. 24 issue, each with one or two engravings that serve as frontispieces, all present. Light rubbing and scuffing to the extremities; a bit of separation starting at the bottom of the rear joint, binding remains solid; contemporary gift inscription in pencil, and a later bookplate; contents with varying degrees of foxing and toning, particularly at the plates and the adjacent leaves; occasional owner pencil bracketing in the margins, but generally clean. Early volumes from a long-running Methodist periodical in a better than usual binding on this mid-century periodical.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8336
- Title
- THE LADIES' REPOSITORY, AND GATHERINGS OF THE WEST: A MONTHLY PERIODICAL DEOTED TO LITERATURE AND RELIGION. Volume VI [and] VII
- Author
- Tefft, B. F. (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ binding
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- L. Swormstedt and J. T. Mitchell
- Place of Publication
- Cincinnati
- Date Published
- 1847
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion; Literature and Fiction;
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Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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Conshohocken, Pennsylvania
About Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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....