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Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Eighth. Two Volumes. (Signed Bindings by Lauriat, Boston)
by Thomson, Mrs. A. T.; (Henry the Eighth / VIII)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826. First Edition First Printing . Leather Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Octavos. xi, 503; viii, 619 pages. Signed bindings by Lauriat. Hardcovers bound in 3/4 calf and tan marbled paper-covered boards. Top edges gilt. Spines have tooling in gilt and dual labels in burgundy and blue. Spines are a bit sunned. The bindings show light rubbing with some contact marks on the spines. Hinges secure. Tan marbled endpapers. SIGNED in type on the verso of the front flyleaf, "Charles E. Lauriat Co., Boston." Portrait frontis in Volume One; otherwise not an illustrated work. The text is mostly clean with just sporadic foxing, heavier at the front and rear of each volume. Overall a very attractive set.
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- Bookseller
- Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051243
- Title
- Memoirs of the Court of Henry the Eighth. Two Volumes. (Signed Bindings by Lauriat, Boston)
- Author
- Thomson, Mrs. A. T.; (Henry the Eighth / VIII)
- Format/Binding
- Leather Bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1826
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 3.90 lbs
- Keywords
- 1826; Mrs. A. T. Thomson; Tompson; Henry the Eighth; Henry VIII; English Monarch; Monarchy; King British; England; History; Signed Binding; Leather; Fine Binding; Antiquarian; Rare; 19th century.
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Antiquarian & Rare; Leather Bindings; Great Britain;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
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About the Seller
Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Biblio member since 2017
Greensboro, North Carolina
About Pages Past Used and Rare Books
Pages Past is a small used & rare bookshop located a few blocks from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Since 1996 we have been serving the Triad community as well as customers from around the world. We have around 15-20,000 volumes in our shop. We specialize in North Carolina, Virginia, Civil War, Old Leather, Christianity, Eastern and Western Philosophies, and the simply unusual. We very likely have the oldest books in Greensboro; we keep a nice selection of antiquarian volumes and scholarly books.
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- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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