Paradise Lost in Twelve Books : Two Volume Set
by John Milton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Edinburgh: John Wood, 1765. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. ..A new edition to which is added, Historical, Philosophical, and Explanatory notes, Translated from the French of The Learned Raymond de St. Maur...". Two volume set in the original brown leather bindings with 5 raised bands along spines, gilt decorations and volume numbers in compartments, gilt title on leather title plate on Volume 1, this leather title plate missing from volume 2 but imprint of title just visible. The leather shows rubbing, especially along edges, but remain robust and attractive. Hinges firm, though rear end paper of both volumes very nearly detatched, and front free end papers missing. Contemporaneous inscription inside the front of each book. Pages have blotchy browning throughout, but otherwise smooth and legible. Overall a very well preserved set.
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Details
- Bookseller
- David's Bookshop
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037072
- Title
- Paradise Lost in Twelve Books : Two Volume Set
- Author
- John Milton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Wood
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1765
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
David's Bookshop
Biblio member since 2022
Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire
About David's Bookshop
Open since 1963, David's Bookshop & Music Shop are located in two linked shops in Eastcheap, Letchworth Garden City, only a few minutes walk from Morrisons supermarket, the railway station and Letchworth Shopping Centre. There is ample parking nearby. As the world's first Garden City, Letchworth has much to offer visitors. We stock books and guides about Letchworth's past and present. At the Bookshop you will find a comprehensive range of fiction, non-fiction, text books, maps and best-sellers in stock. Travellers, walkers, computer users and local historians are especially well catered for. We can supply any book in print and there are always many titles on special offer. The book collector - or second-hand browser - can check out a growing selection of our 15,000 second-hand and antiquarian books available for purchase through the internet. If you have good quality books to sell - bring them in for a quick appraisal and a fair offer. You can rely upon our staff's advice who really know about books. Contact us online at www.davids-bookshops.co.uk.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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