A Book on Angling (Second Edition, Revised and Much Enlarged)
by FRANCIS, FRANCIS
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- Hardcover
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Longmans, Green and Co 1867. ENLARGED SECOND EDITION, octavo, maroon textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration & rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xiii + 472pp, illus, VG- (heavy chipping & scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate discolouration to spine, light chafing to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges with moderate soiling also, heavy cracking to gutters with shaky boards, light foxing to prelims & terminals)
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- Title
- A Book on Angling (Second Edition, Revised and Much Enlarged)
- Author
- FRANCIS, FRANCIS
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co 1867
- Keywords
- angling fly fishing flyfishing equipment trout salmon hobbies
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...