The Parlor Book: Or Family Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge and General Literature
Published by John L. Piper & Co, New York, 1837
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
AbeBooks seller since July 25, 1997
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 50.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Thick octavo. iv, 960pp. Illustrated with ten colored plates, which includes a color frontispiece and also an engraved pictorial half-title page. Names of E.A. Rogers of New Orleans, Mary Louise Rogers of California, and a third individual on the second front flyleaf with births and deaths of their relatives recorded on the rear free endpaper. Quarter calf diced-cloth boards with a pinkish hue and gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Boards and spine are worn particularly along the edges, fading and soiling to the boards, a torn piece of paper affixed to the pastedown, endpapers soiled, and foxing throughout, good or better with the hinges remaining tight and sound.
Seller Inventory # 620459
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Parlor Book: Or Family Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge and General Literature
- Author
- BLAKE, John Lauris, Rev
- Publisher
- John L. Piper & Co, New York
- Publication year
- 1837
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Softcover
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