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A Treatise on Prayer, Designed to Assist in the Devout Discharge of That Duty, with a Few Forms of Prayer
by Bickersteth, Edward
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
London: L.B. Seely. Good with no dust jacket. 1821. Hardcover. Black half-leather binding with brown marbled boards rubbed at extremities; spine ends & corners frayed; backstrip leather abraded, split along front gutter; boards scuffed; front hinge cracked, though textblock quite tight & firm; corner tips of a few leaves bent; outer leavess foxed, else a solid, clean book. No dj. ; 12mo; 332 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48542
- Title
- A Treatise on Prayer, Designed to Assist in the Devout Discharge of That Duty, with a Few Forms of Prayer
- Author
- Bickersteth, Edward
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- L.B. Seely
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1821
- Keywords
- 19th Century English Evangelical Clergymen, Irish Church Missions, Evangelical Protestant Ministry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion Room: "B" Shelf;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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Fort Wayne, Indiana
About Hyde Brothers, Booksellers
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Marbled boards
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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,...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
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