The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (Vol. VI: Chivalry, Romance and the Drama)
by SCOTT, Sir Walter
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Very Good+. 1870. Leather. An attractive leatherbound edition presenting three essays by Sir Walter Scott: Essay on Chivalry, Essay on Romance and Essay on the Drama. With tissue-guarded frontis illustrations depicting a Jerusalem scene and Shakespeare's Stratford church monument. Volume VI only of publisher's series, "The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott". --- In full pebbled leather backed in smooth leather, with 5 raised hubs to spine, and with gilt-stamped spine titling & decorations. All edges marbled. Endpapers in red/blue/yellow marbled papers. --- With Peterborough bookseller rubberstamping to front endpaper, white spotting to front cover and light chafing to cover edges. Overall, an about Very Good+ attractive addition to one's bookshelf.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; (10), 395 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83172
- Title
- The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. (Vol. VI: Chivalry, Romance and the Drama)
- Author
- SCOTT, Sir Walter
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1870
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Littleton, Colorado
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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...
- Good+
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- 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....
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...