ST. PATRICK'S EVE.
by LEVER, CHARLES
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Edges Worn./No Jacket
- Seller
-
Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. All edges gilt. Gilt designs front cover and spine. Both covers blocked in blind with four harps in blind at the corners. Spine extremities frayed. Slightly squint. Quire G loosened but still attached. Etched frontispiece and three plates by PHIZ. Numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. One plate foxed and worn at edges, frontispiece lightly foxed, others very clean. 203pp. See Sadlier 1420. First Edition. Green Ribbed Cloth. Edges Worn./No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001865
- Title
- ST. PATRICK'S EVE.
- Author
- LEVER, CHARLES
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Edges Worn.
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1845
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- FICTION-ENGLISH, PHIZ, ILLUSTRATED
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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....
- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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