William Heinemann Ltd, 1897. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1897. No Edition Remarks Stated. 470 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Contains black and white illustrated frontispiece. The Works of Lord Byron Volume I: Letters 1804-1813. Gilt top text block edge. Rough-cut pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Occasional thumb-marking present. Paper remnants to front free endpaper and half-title page, with previous owner's pencil marking. Newspaper clippings stuck to rear free endpaper and pastedown. Minor dog-eared corners. Binding remains firm. Minor creasing and small tears to text block edges. Boards have moderate edge wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends, with small split to bottom edge. Notable sunning to spine and edges. Minor black scuffed marks to all surfaces. Faint water staining to spine, with small black mark to top. Minor black marking overall. Book is slightly bowed and forward leaning.

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Bookseller: World of Rare Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1626157795PUL
Title: The Works of Lord Byron Volume I: Letters 1804-1813
Author: Lord Byron
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Date Published: 1897

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Rubbing: Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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....
Acceptable: A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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...
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...
Foxed: Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Text Block: Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....