John Murray 1913. FIRST EDITION, FRONTIS & 3x PLATES MISSING, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering & lion motif to spine & front board, teg, xix + 291pp, VG- (heavy scuffing & chipping to board edges/corners & spine extrems, heavy tearing to cloth/buckram at spine, moderate staining to spine & front board, occasional ex-library markings- subtle, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, presentation plate to front pastedown, tissue guard heavily creased & torn, aforementioned frontispiece & 3x plates missing, heavy cracking to front gutter, sporadic foxing throughout)

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Seller: Hard To Find Books (NZ)
Seller's Inventory #: 296650
Title: The Book of the Lion
Author: PEASE, Sir ALFRED E
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray 1913
Keywords: hunting big cats game lions lion

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Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Buckram: A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
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...
Gutter: The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
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...
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...