Scots Minstrelsie: A National Monumnet of Scottish Song. With a Gallery of Authentic Portraits, and Illustrations after Wilkie, Duncan, Faed, Harvey, Bough, and Others
by GREIG, JOHN (ed.)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
The Caxton Press (N/D). SIX VOLUME SET, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt thistle motif to front board, blind embossed coat of arms to rear board, frontispiece, prelims + 422pp across 6 vols, plates, VG ( age appropriate wear & tear, light brusing to spine extrems, light foxing to page edges) in d/w, scruffy (light soiling, moderate chipping with loss, moderate creasing at edges across all vols.)
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- Title
- Scots Minstrelsie: A National Monumnet of Scottish Song. With a Gallery of Authentic Portraits, and Illustrations after Wilkie, Duncan, Faed, Harvey, Bough, and Others
- Author
- GREIG, JOHN (ed.)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Caxton Press (N/D)
- Keywords
- scotland united kingdom sheet music songs
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- 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...
- 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....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and 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...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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