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THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS
by BURNS, ROBERT
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Light to Moderate Cover Wear/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Frederick Warne and Company, 1895. Spine replaced with green leather, gilt lettering. New endpapers. All edges gilt. A typical Mauchline binding with oval front cover illustration of Burns. "Forty-second" in gilt at top of front cover. Light foxing to preliminaries and title-page. Internally fresh and clean. "Reprinted from the best editions, with explanatory glossary, notes, memoir". Mauchline wear is decorative woodware named for a town in Ayrshire, Scotland. 614pp.. Reprint Edition. Green Plaid Wooden Boards. . Light to Moderate Cover Wear/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014030
- Title
- THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS
- Author
- BURNS, ROBERT
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light to Moderate Cover Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne and Company
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1895
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Poetry, Robery Burns, Scotland, Scottish Poetry, Mauchline Binding
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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....
- 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"...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.