RECOLLECTIONS OF WRITERS: With Letters of Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Douglas Jerrold, and Charles Dickens
by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878. First edition. Hardcover. Fair. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. viii, 347 pgs, plus adverts. Brown cloth boards with gilt border, docoration and lettering on cover, and spine. Beveled edges. Condition is FAIR ; interior front hinge cracked, covers very worn and faded, edges worn, ends of spine split and frayed. Binding remains sound, text is clean. Letters. Stacks.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5351
- Title
- RECOLLECTIONS OF WRITERS
- Author
- Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1878
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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...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- 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...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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...