THE TOWER OF LONDON. A Historical Romance. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
by AINSWORTH, , W. Harrison
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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CHELTENHAM, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London, Richard Bentley, 1840.. Large thick octavo, xvi+440pp, illustrated with plate engravings and in-text line drawings, original half leather with handsome gilt spine and marbled boards, rubbed and edge-worn, first few pages loose, inside hinges starting, ink names on flyleaf and front pastedown, a good copy. . First edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grant's Bookshop (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 218416
- Title
- THE TOWER OF LONDON. A Historical Romance. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
- Author
- AINSWORTH, , W. Harrison
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, Richard Bentley, 1840.
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CHELTENHAM, Victoria
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Glossary
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marbled boards
- ...