Josiah Wedgwood FRS: His Personal History
by SMILES, SAMUEL
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
John Murray 1894. Octavo, brown buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt urn motif & gilt rule to front board, patterened eps, frontispiece with tissueguard, xi + 304pp + 13pp book ads, VG (slight fading to spine, light bruising to spine extrems, two small scratches to front board, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges and eps, owner's name in ink to fep, 4cm closed tear to upper corner of pages 9/10 & 11/12 of book ads at rear)
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- 189215
- Title
- Josiah Wedgwood FRS: His Personal History
- Author
- SMILES, SAMUEL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Murray 1894
- Keywords
- Samuel Smiles Josiah Wedgwood biography
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...