ABBEYS, CASTLES, AND ANCIENT HALLS OF ENGLAND AND WALES; THEIR LEGENDARY LORE, AND POPULAR HISTORY
by TIMBS, JOHN
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/No d/w
- Seller
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Skreen, Sligo, Ireland
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About This Item
London: Frederick Warne & Co. Book. Good. Decorated Boards. First Edition.. xii + 580pp +17pp book-list; No date (1870); Volume 2 only (ex 2 vols.); Tissue-guarded frontispiece; Foxing to prelims; Front internal hinge cracked and corners and edges bumped; Blind-stamped covers and gilt decorated spine; Internally bright and sound; Previous owner's signatures to half-title; Digital photos available on request; Size: 12mo.
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- Bookseller
- Weathered Stone Books (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005659
- Title
- ABBEYS, CASTLES, AND ANCIENT HALLS OF ENGLAND AND WALES; THEIR LEGENDARY LORE, AND POPULAR HISTORY
- Author
- TIMBS, JOHN
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No d/w
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Frederick Warne & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- ABBEYS, CASTLES OF ENGLAND;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Weathered Stone Books
Biblio member since 2018
Skreen, Sligo
About Weathered Stone Books
In operation since 1982 as The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin until 2005. Then in USA as Wandering Star Books an online bookseller also conducting appraisals for private collectors and institutions. Now back in Ireland and living in beautiful Sligo with views of the Atlantic and selling online.
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- 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...
- 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...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.