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The Middle Night
by [ANONYMOUS]
- Used
- Condition
- Edges rubbed; very good copy.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
London: William Pickering, 1851, 1851. First edition. OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge and National Library of Scotland). Edges rubbed; very good copy.. 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering on the upper board. Errata slip inserted at page eight. Four pages of publisher's terminal ads. An anonymous philosophical poem in 35 parts of three and four stanzas each, handsomely printed by Charles Whittingham for Pickering. Inscribed on the front paste-down "To / Professor F. W. Newman / from the Author as a / slight acknowledgement of / both pleasure and profit derived / from his lectures. Feb 2nd, 1854." Francis William Newman (1805-1897) was a philosopher and brother of Cardinal John Henry Newman. Bookplate of collector Simon Nowell-Smith on the front paste-down.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25752
- Title
- The Middle Night
- Author
- [ANONYMOUS]
- Format/Binding
- OCLC records six copies (Harvard, State Library of South Australia, Queensland, BL, Cambridge and National Library of Scotland)
- Book Condition
- Used - Edges rubbed; very good copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- London: William Pickering, 1851
- Date Published
- 1851
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About the Seller
The Brick Row Book Shop
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San Francisco, California
About The Brick Row Book Shop
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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...
- First Edition
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- 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...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- Errata
- Errata: aka Errata Slip A piece of paper either laid in to the book correcting errors found in the printed text after being...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
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