Sacred and Legendary Art. Two volume set
by Jameson, Mrs
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
-
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Longman's Green & Co. Fair. 1863. Hardcover. Leather-bound two-volume set. Fourth edition. On Volume I, front hinge is shot and rear hinge is starting to split; on Volume II, front hinge is starting, and one picture plate is detached. Pages are unmarked and only slightly aged, but there's a little water damage on fore-edge of both volumes. Two ex-owner plates per book. Gilt edges in good condition. Full leather covers with gilt spine titles and design -- rubbed at corners and spine edges, with other random marks. Volume II has tiny gold ex-owner stamp. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eat My Words Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12592
- Title
- Sacred and Legendary Art. Two volume set
- Author
- Jameson, Mrs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- Longman's Green & Co
- Date Published
- 1863
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Eat My Words Books
Biblio member since 2014
Minneapolis, Minnesota
About Eat My Words Books
We are a small, independent book shop in NE Minneapolis. We sell mostly used books with a section of new books by local authors. We also have a large rare and collectible book section. Our real storefront hosts all sorts of community events and often serves up bread, coffee, and tea.
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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....
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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...