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Lives of the English Saints: St Aelred, Abbot of Rievaux etc
by John Henry Newman
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
James Toovey, 1845. Hardcover. Good. 1845. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Half bound red leather with brown cloth covered boards and gilt lettering to spine. Several books bound together, each paginated separately. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and rubbing to corners. Spine heavily worn and deteriorating. Gilt lettering dulled. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1700662825ALK
- Title
- Lives of the English Saints: St Aelred, Abbot of Rievaux etc
- Author
- John Henry Newman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- James Toovey
- Date Published
- 1845
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Half Bound
- ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
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