Charles Scribner's Sons 1897. Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt military motif to front board, printed eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, vii + 316pp, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to spine extrems, light bruising & fraying to board corners, moderate discolouration to spine & board edges, light scuffing & soiling to rear board, moderate tanning to page edges, heavy crack to full length of gutter to pgs 16-17 & pgs 288-289)

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Bookseller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 252830
Title: The Black Watch: The Record of an Historic Regiment
Author: FORBES, ARCHIBALD
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons 1897
Keywords: Black Watch military history 3rd third battalion Scottish light infantry British army

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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....
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...
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...
Buckram: A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
Chipping: A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
VG: Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...