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THE WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Poet Laureate (Leather Bound)
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Livonia, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: MacMillan Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1895. Hardcover. ; Three quarter green morocco leather bound cover with green linen boards has 5 raised bands with gilt detail. Leather is toned to dark brown on spine with light wear to the extremities and modest soiling on the cloth. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Green marbled end sheets and paste downs with light residue where a bookplate must have been removed. Engraved frontispiece of Tennyson in very good condition and protected by tissue. Pages are clean and in very good condition. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3339
- Title
- THE WORKS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Poet Laureate (Leather Bound)
- Author
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- MacMillan Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
Biblio member since 2020
Livonia, Michigan
About Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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