Classic Tales: Serious and Lively Complete 5- Volume Set: Samuel Johnson / John Hawkesworth / Marmontel / Goldsmith & Henry Brooke / Voltaire
by Hunt, Leigh (editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
London & Edinburgh: William Paterson. Very Good+. N.D.. Hardcover. Early diminutive edition circa 1850. Matching set of 5 volumes in green half morocco and green marbled boards; gilt top edges and five raised bands on the spine with gilt titles. Unmarked and tight and just showing slight signs of shelflife. An attractive set. 224 to 282 pages per volume. ; 4 x 5.5" .
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Details
- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 60229
- Title
- Classic Tales: Serious and Lively Complete 5- Volume Set: Samuel Johnson / John Hawkesworth / Marmontel / Goldsmith & Henry Brooke / Voltaire
- Author
- Hunt, Leigh (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Publisher
- William Paterson
- Place of Publication
- London & Edinburgh
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthology;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
B-Line Books
Return: If the book is not as described, we will refund cost of book and shipping. If for any reason the buyer does not want the book, even though it is as described, we will offer a refund minus shipping both ways (within 14 days).
About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...