Moral Tales for Young People, in Two Volumes
by Edgeworth, Maria
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Peter Hill. Good. 1833. 1/4 leather. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 533 pages; 1833 Peter Hill, NY. In two volumes complete. Uniformly bound in quarter red leather backed paper covered boards. Gilt rules, titles and vol numbers directly in gilt to leather. Prior ownership of a liberal arts university philosophical scoiety with bookplates to front pastedowns and period small paper labels to spines. Ownership notes in pen and pencil to bookplates and front endpages. Bindings sound but tender. Rear endpages missing from Vol I. Small chip missing from leather base of spine vol II/ Boards rubbed with flaking and loss of paper on edges. Illustrated with some woodcuts. Good only .
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Details
- Bookseller
- DogStar Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46758
- Title
- Moral Tales for Young People, in Two Volumes
- Author
- Edgeworth, Maria
- Format/Binding
- 1/4 leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Peter Hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1833
- Bookseller catalogs
- 19th Century Subjects and Studies; Education;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
DogStar Books
15 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 15 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
DogStar Books
Biblio member since 2020
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
About DogStar Books
DogStar Books is an open-shop used and rare book store located in historic Lancaster PA. We have been buying and selling scholarly, antiquarian and better books, images, and paper since 1991. We maintain a large general collection of over 40,000 titles on premises to serve our local book loving clientele. Out of town visitors and buyers are always welcome. Our online inventory at Biblio began in 2020 and we will be increasing our inventory here on a regular basis.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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...