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Scenes of Clerical Life
by Eliot, George
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- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Te Awamutu, Waikato, New Zealand
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€7.49€5.99
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About This Item
London: Collins N.d. Red cloth decorated in gilt on spine, gilt stamped author's name on front panel. B/w Frontispiece plus 5 B/w Plates. Spine has tiny chip to top end, label mark on tail end. Small signature verso Ffep. Verso Frontispiece is p/o stamp, name stamp plus previous pricemarking. Exterior edges of pages foxed and darkened. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by A. H. Buckland. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Synopsis
Scenes of Clerical Life is the title under which George Eliot's first published fictional work, a collection of three short stories, was released in book form, and the first of her works to be released under her famous pseudonym. The stories were first published in Blackwood's Magazine over the course of the year 1857, initially anonymously, before being released as a two-volume set by Blackwood and Sons in January 1858.
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- Bookseller
- All Booked
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006412
- Title
- Scenes of Clerical Life
- Author
- Eliot, George
- Illustrator
- A. H. Buckland
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- Literature Classics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Criticism; Literature;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
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