Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, Historical
by JAMESON, MRS
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston: Philip Sampson and Company, 1853. Later Printing. Full Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Original beveled wood boards bound in black leather with gilt title and rule to ribbed spine, blind stampped decorative border to front board, gilt to three edges. Illustrated with engravings. Spine rebacked, chip top corner of title page, paper browning very slightly and with some small tears and some crumbling to page edges, the more extensive have been filled, foxing to plates and adjacent pages, plates offset to tissue guards.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 26720
- Title
- Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, Historical
- Author
- JAMESON, MRS
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Publisher
- Philip Sampson and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1853
Terms of Sale
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Biblio member since 2012
Toronto, Ontario
About Karol Krysik Books, ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA
Interesting and unusual books and printed matter. Visual items, illustrated books, private press, mythology/folklore, modern first editions. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and theIndependent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA)
Glossary
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- 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....
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, 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...
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