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Prose Masterpieces From Modern Essayists
Various
1896
Bickers & Son : London
9" by 5.5"
[10], 395pp
SUMMARY
A Bickers bound collection of twelve unabridged essays by important writers, an illustrated work with portrait plates.
Illustrated,Leather Binding,Signed Binding
Overall Condition: Very Good
This book weighs 1.5 KG when packed
UK Postage: £ 3.99
US Postage: £ 23.99
EU Postage: £ 18.99
European Postage: £ 19.99
Asia Postage: £ 31.99
Worldwide Postage: £ 32.99
DESCRIPTION
In a smart Bickers binding, a prize binding for Lancing College.
A series of twelve masterpiece unabridged essays by leading essayists of the 1880s, including Irving, Lamb, Macaulay, Gladstone, Emerson, Arnold, de Quincy, Morley, Lowell, Carlyle, Froude, and Freeman.
Essays include 'Imperfect Sympathies', 'Sweetness and Light', 'On Popular Culture', 'Kin Beyond Sea', and more.
Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and eleven portrait plates.
Collated, complete.
Prize label from Lancing College to the front paste down, dated 1915.
CONDITION
In a half calf binding with cloth to the boards. Externally, smart, with a little rubbing to the joints and extremities, with a small patch of loss to the tail of the front board. Spine is a little faded. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Prize label to the front paste down. Spots to the fore edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with a few spots due to the spots to the fore edge.
Overall Condition: Very Good
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Overall Condition
(Dustwrapper condition rating is shown after that for the book itself, where a dustwrapper is present)
Fine - Very well preserved copy showing very little wear
Very Good Indeed - Only one or two minor faults, really a very attractive copy
Very Good - Quite a wide term meaning no major faults but probably several smaller ones
often expected given the age of the book, but still a respectable copy
Good - Meaning not very good. Some more serious faults as will
be described in the condition report under 'condition'
Good Only - Meaning one or more faults that could really do with repair
Fair - As with good only above but with other faults
leaving a compromised copy even after repair
Poor - Really bad and possibly seriously incomplete.
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attractive none the less. Major defects will be described.
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