TABLE BOOK, OF DAILY RECREATION AND INFORMATION: Concerning Remarkable Men, Manners, Times, Seasons, Solemnities, Merry-Makings, Antiquities and Novelties, Forming a Complete History of the Year
by Hone, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good to Very Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London: William Tegg/Hunt and Clarke (1827) 870 pp. Original dark purple cloth covers w/ black leather spine and corners. Gilt title and five raised bands on spine with elaborate gilt decoration. Binding lightly rubbed w/ wear to extremities. Edges of text block marbled. Inner hinges cracked. Light foxing throughout. Illust. w/ engravings.. Hard Cover. Good to Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Illus. by G. Cruikshank, Williams, &c. (Engravings). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Shoemaker Booksellers
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- 23786WHEUR
- Title
- TABLE BOOK, OF DAILY RECREATION AND INFORMATION: Concerning Remarkable Men, Manners, Times, Seasons, Solemnities, Merry-Makings, Antiquities and Novelties, Forming a Complete History of the Year
- Author
- Hone, William
- Illustrator
- G. Cruikshank, Williams, &c. (Engravings)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good to Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Publisher
- William Tegg/Hunt and Clarke
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- WORLD HISTORY TRAVEL EUROPE GREAT BRITAIN SOCIAL LIFE AND CUSTOMS SOCIAL HISTORY SOCIOLOGY SOCIAL SCIENCE DAYS MANNERS AND CUSTOMS ENGLISH ALMANACS SEASONS FESTIVALS ANECDOTES POPULAR CULTURE MISCELLANEA NONFICTION GENERAL
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- Social History;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Shoemaker Booksellers
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
About Shoemaker Booksellers
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- 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,...
- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- 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...
- Gilt
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