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Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764 Edited by Frederick A. Pottle
by Boswell, James
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Kingscliff, New South Wales, Australia
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: William Heinemann. Fine. 1953. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Light offsetting to half title. Slip case a little rubbed and creased ; Original quarter vellum, gilt, top edge gilt, other edges ncut and partly unopened ; The Yale Editions of The Private Papers of James Boswell; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 354 pages; The Deluxe Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Haymes & Co.
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B5130
- Title
- Boswell on the Grand Tour: Germany and Switzerland 1764 Edited by Frederick A. Pottle
- Author
- Boswell, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Travel, Europe, Limited Edition
Terms of Sale
Haymes & Co.
Al l books are sold as complete or as otherwise described. Any item found to be not as described may be returned within 7 days of purchase.
About the Seller
Haymes & Co.
Biblio member since 2022
Kingscliff, New South Wales
About Haymes & Co.
Haymes & Co. are 6th generation antiquarian booksellers. Our foundations trace back to Rotterdam, Holland, in the early 19th century.
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- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
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