The Land and the Book
by THOMSON, W. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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DUNEDIN, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
T. Nelson & Sons 1867. Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spine & front board, blind decorative rule to spine & boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, 718pp, illus, folding map to front, VG- (heavy bruising & scuffing to board edges/extrems, moderate scuffing to boards, moderate tanning to page edges, ex-libris plate to front pastedown, prev. ownership names in ink to prelims, moderate cracking to gutters, 4cm closed tear & foxing to folding map)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 279882
- Title
- The Land and the Book
- Author
- THOMSON, W. M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Nelson & Sons 1867
- Keywords
- Palestine Judea history illustrated culture customs
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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....
- 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...
- 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...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...