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The Nonsense Club: Literature and Popular Culture, 1749-1764
by Lance Bertelsen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0198128592
- ISBN 13
- 9780198128595
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Nonsense Club: Literature and Popular Culture, 1749-1764 by Lance Bertelsen.
Hardcover, 1986, first edition, published by Clarendon Press Oxford, 322 pages+.
In acceptable-good condition. Scuffing and a little marking to dust jacket, some signs of shelf-wear. Dark blue cloth binding, gilt lettering to spine, slight marking but very clean and firm. Slightly bumped corners. Very slight tanning, a little marking and scuffing to page edges. Page surfaces contain pencil marginalia, underlining, etc. See pictures for more information.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-215
- Title
- The Nonsense Club: Literature and Popular Culture, 1749-1764
- Author
- Lance Bertelsen
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0198128592
- ISBN 13
- 9780198128595
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press Oxford
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 322+
- Keywords
- Samuel Johnson, Charles Churchill, Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, William Cowper, Robert Lloyd
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Inverness, Highland
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- Jacket
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- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- 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....
- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- 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...
- 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...
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