THE LIVES OF THE PLAYERS
by GALT, JOHN
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Moderate Wear and Scuffing/No Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. Two volumes in one. Panelled spine, lettered and dated in gilt. Green paper-covered boards with moderately-heavy soiling. Small 1/2" rubbed area at foot of front cover. All edges gilt. A total of 29 biographical sketches of English actors of the time. Included are Nell Gwinn, Charles Hart, Colley Cibber, Richard Savage, Mrs. Siddons, Mrs. Baddeley among many others. 315-308pp.. First Edition. 1/2 Black Calf. Moderate Wear and Scuffing/No Jacket. Octavo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013336
- Title
- THE LIVES OF THE PLAYERS
- Author
- GALT, JOHN
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Moderate Wear and Scuffing
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1831
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Theater, Theatre, English Theatre, Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Pritchard;
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
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About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...