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Pompeii
by MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON
- Used
- Condition
- Fine copy.
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1819, 1819. First edition. NCBEL III, 1463. Fine copy.. 8vo, original plain blue wrappers, [16] pages, a.e.g. Engraved title-page. The first book by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-59), a 13-page poem of 280 stanzas on the popular classical subject, Pompeii and its famous destruction. Like many first books by noted English authors, Pompeii was a prize poem, which Macaulay delivered at the Cambridge commencement July, 1819. When copies of Pompeii were bound, the handsome engraved title-page , present here, was often discarded. This copy also has the unusual distinction of having all the edges gilt, including the edges of the wrappers, which is perhaps the case on all copies in the wrappers?
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Brick Row Book Shop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27699
- Title
- Pompeii
- Author
- MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON
- Format/Binding
- NCBEL III, 1463
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Cambridge: Printed by J. Smith, 1819
- Date Published
- 1819
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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
The Brick Row Book Shop, founded in 1915, is one of the oldest antiquarian book firms in the United States. We're located a block from Union Square in downtown San Francisco, and are open by appointment Monday-Friday. The engraving by T. Diedricksen is of the Shop as it was shortly after its founding in New Haven, Connecticut.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- 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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