Noctes Ambrosianae
by WILSON, John, MAGINN, William, LOCKHART, J.G., and HOGG, James
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: W.J. Widdleton, Publisher, 1863. Hardcover. Edition revised by R. Shelton Mackenzie. Complete 5-volume set. 8vo. Quarter calf with gilt spine lettering and decorations and paper labels (expert contemporary replacements) and marbled paper over boards. xxxii, 486pp; xxxvi, 432pp; xvi, 469pp; xxii, 468pp; xxxii, xii, 465pp. Frontispieces, marbled endpapers and page edges. Very good. Mild edgewear, but internally bright and near fine. Handsome and tight custom-bound set of this series of 71 fictional dialogues first published by "Blackwood's Magazine" between 1822 and 1835. From the library of Wisconsin civic leader JAMES M. LYNCH, chief clerk at the Adjutant General's Office during the Civil War, appointed quartermaster general in 1865. He boldly signs the inner flyleaf of Volumes II, IV and V in brown ink, dating each "Madison, Wis. / 1863.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37654
- Title
- Noctes Ambrosianae
- Author
- WILSON, John, MAGINN, William, LOCKHART, J.G., and HOGG, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- W.J. Widdleton, Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1863
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; British Literature;
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Galena, Illinois
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Edges
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....