THE GOLDEN ASS OF LUCIUS APULEIUS In the Translation by William Adlington.
by Apuleius; William Adlington & F. J. Harvey Darton & Ill. by Philip Hagreen
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Limited. Good+. N.D.. Hardcover. Pages browned. Smartly rebound in 1/2 leather spine with marbled boards and endpapers. With raised bands to spine and gilt lettering and tooling. A few stains to spine (water-staining? ). Gift plate to R. E. Fantham (née Crosthwaite) on ffep for the T. H. Green Prize 1952. Some leather flecking off joints of spine but still very presentable. Else VG. ; No date (perhaps 1920s - 1940s? ). ; 359 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Ancient World Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27762
- Title
- THE GOLDEN ASS OF LUCIUS APULEIUS In the Translation by William Adlington.
- Author
- Apuleius; William Adlington & F. J. Harvey Darton & Ill. by Philip Hagreen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Publisher
- Privately Printed for the Navarre Society Limited
- Date Published
- N.D.
- Keywords
- Apuleius, Latin Literature
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- 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.
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Marbled boards
- ...