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An Exploration of Exmoor and the Hill Country of West Somerset, with notes on its archaeology [Large Paper Edition]
by Page, John Lloyd Warden
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Seeley and Co. Limited, 1890. Illustrated with 17 engraved plates and a mounted engraved frontispiece, large octavo, pp xvi, 318, top edge gilt, the other edges untrimmed, a neat owner's name opposite the half-title, a folding map in good condition at the rear, publisher's quarter morocco and cloth; sadly, the binding is not in good condition - the upper cover is very faded and marked and the spine is worn and lacking a few small pieces, the edges of the front endpapers and the half title are slightly stained, this has spread to the frontispiece though the actual image is barely affected (see illustration). [Large paper edition of 250 copies, of which this is number 183.]. First Edition. Quarter leather. Fair.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020572
- Title
- An Exploration of Exmoor and the Hill Country of West Somerset, with notes on its archaeology [Large Paper Edition]
- Author
- Page, John Lloyd Warden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Seeley and Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1890
- Bookseller catalogs
- Topography; Local History; Archaeology; Country Life;
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Mike Park Ltd
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About Mike Park Ltd
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- First Edition
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
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