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Through the Year with Browning: A Day Book of Choice Passages
by Robert Browning
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Inverness, Highland, United Kingdom
Item Price
€23.79€17.84
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About This Item
Through the Year with Browning: A Day Book of Choice Passages [Robert Browning].
Hardback, undated but circa 1900, published by Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., London, 148 pages.
Octavo/8vo, measures around 5 7/8" by 4 5/8" by 3/4". Red cloth binding, gilt lettering and decoration to front board and spine. Some discolouration to areas of board and to spine, though colouring still reasonably vivid. A little marking and scuffing. Signs of wear, rubbing at edges and on hinges, some tearing at head and tail of spine. Bumped and slightly torn corners. Binding quite firm, though cracking to front inner hinge. Page lower and fore-edges deckled and uncut. Upper page edges gilt. Some browning, marking and scuffing to page edges but reasonably clean. Some foxing to pastedowns and endpapers. The odd mark to page surfaces but otherwise clean, no underlining, marginalia, etc. See pictures for further information.
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- Bookseller
- GN Books and Prints
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #BIBLIO-233
- Title
- Through the Year with Browning: A Day Book of Choice Passages
- Author
- Robert Browning
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- Circa 1900
- Pages
- 148
- Size
- 8vo.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, Robert Browning
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About the Seller
GN Books and Prints
Biblio member since 2022
Inverness, Highland
About GN Books and Prints
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- 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...
- Rubbing
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- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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....
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