QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS
by Horace
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good
- Seller
-
Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Paris: Petrus Didot, 1800. Full-Leather. Near Very Good. LATIN TEXT. Illustrated Headpieces. Handsome Green Crushed Morocco Full-Leather Binding with 5 Raised Bands to spine. Title Label missing from 2nd compartment but Lettering clearly impressed. Gilt Decoration filling compartments and on bands. ilt Triple Linear Border to front and back and Gilt Decoration to board edges and inside Border. Marbled Endpapers. 280 Pages, 250g, 6 1/4" Tall. Slight edgewear, mainly around spine. Colour faded on spine. No inscriptions. 2 small spots of light foxing in top corner of title page. Text pages in very good, clean condition. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornish Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015377
- Title
- QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS
- Author
- Horace
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Petrus Didot
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1800
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/ANCIENT AUTHORS/HORACE/HORATIUS/CLASSICAL AUTHORS
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About the Seller
Cornish Books
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Penzance, Cornwall
About Cornish Books
Online Bookseller since 2008, in Penzance, Cornwall.We are a small family business and offer a personal service.Always in stock is a good selection of Cornish Interest Books.
Glossary
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- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...