A DOG OF WAR.
by TAYLOR, John, the Water Poet. With Hand-Coloured Engravings on Wood by Hester Sainsbury
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927. . Limited edition, no. 28 of 375 copies, tall 8vo., pp.32, quarter orange buckram, gilt, orange paper-covered boards, coloured frontispiece and 4 further hand-coloured plates; toning and some foxing to endpapers, light foxing within, spine just lightly sunned, with light surface soil to boards and wear to paper covering at lower corners of boards, overall a very good copy, in good(+) unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, partially toned, with closed tears and light loss to upper margin.
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- Bookseller
- MINSTER GATE BOOKSHOP (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37495
- Title
- A DOG OF WAR.
- Author
- TAYLOR, John, the Water Poet. With Hand-Coloured Engravings on Wood by Hester Sainsbury
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1927.
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- Gilt
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- Sunned
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- Buckram
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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....