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The Incorporation of Wrights in Glasgow
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good Plus
- Seller
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Tarrington, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Glasgow: Printed by James C. Erskine and Sons for the Incorporation of Wrights, 1900. 4th Edition . Good Plus. 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14 x 22 cm). Half calf leather binding with brown cloth boards. Spine with five raised bands and paper private library number. Gilt armorial to front board, marbled endpapers, speckled page edges, rubbing and surface tears to the leather. Light marking and rubbing to boards. Good solid binding with no cracking to joints. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper (Kames A. Ferguson). Clean text throughout. Large fold-out plate at rear. Overall condition is Good Plus. Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14 x 22 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. viii, 68, [2], c
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- Bookseller
- Tarrington Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1230E016
- Title
- The Incorporation of Wrights in Glasgow
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Printed by James C. Erskine and Sons for the Incorporation of Wrights
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 5.75 x 8.75 inches (14 x 22 cm)
- Keywords
- Scottish, Scotland, Guilds, Carpenters, Carpentry, Woodworking, Woodworkers, Trades House of Glasgow, Glassmaking, Gilding, , Engineering_Technical
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine Bindings; Engineering & Technical;
Terms of Sale
Tarrington Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Tarrington Books
Biblio member since 2015
Tarrington, Herefordshire
About Tarrington Books
A family run bookshop located in the heart of rural Herefordshire. Large selection of children's literature, crime fiction, military, history, travel, vintage paperbacks, quality antiquarian volumes & fine bindings. We offer free UK postage on all items and pride ourselves on our safe packaging and rapid dispatch of orders. Browsers welcome by appointment.
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- Bookplate
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
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