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The Birds of Cornwall and The Scilly Islands
by Rodd, Edward Hearle (edited by James Edward Harting)
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Trubner & Co, 1880. Book. Fair. hardback. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, blue cloth lettered gilt to spine, black vignette to the upper board, brown endpapers. Rubbed to the extremities, loss at head and foot of spine and with a 2" split at the foot of the lower joint. The binding remains tight, previous owner details to the recto of the portrait frontis, the body of text is unmarked. Folding map has a large cellotaped repair. lvi + 320pp.
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- Bookseller
- Pendleburys - the bookshop in the hills
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 274025
- Title
- The Birds of Cornwall and The Scilly Islands
- Author
- Rodd, Edward Hearle (edited by James Edward Harting)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Trubner & Co
- Date Published
- 1880
- Keywords
- ornithology
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- add;
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About the Seller
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Llanwrda, Carmarthenshire
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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....
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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