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Old English Porcelain a Handbook for Collectors
by Honey, W B
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Faber and Faber. Good/Fair. 1928. New Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo Dust jacket in clear protective sleeve, price clipped, large chunks missing to edges. Red cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Slight foxing to page tips. No ownership inscriptions. 112 pages of plates. Notes written onto rear end papers. 192 pages clean and tight. Mr Honey's book has long been recognized as the standard work on its subject. It has now been brought up to date, and incorporates the results of much recent research. Twenty-four new subjects have been added to the plates, which now depict more than three hundred and thirty carefully chosen and typical specimens. The book in its new form will be indispensable alike to beginners and experienced collectors. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 133529
- Title
- Old English Porcelain a Handbook for Collectors
- Author
- Honey, W B
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Fair
- Edition
- New Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Antiques
Terms of Sale
CHARLES BOSSOM
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. Please contact me if you have any problem with your order by e-mail charles.bossom@googlemail.com
About the Seller
CHARLES BOSSOM
Biblio member since 2010
ELY, Cambridgeshire
About CHARLES BOSSOM
Charles Bossom has worked in the Book Trade since 1963, commencing at WH Smith Oxford and retiring in 1999 as Regional Manager Central England. The Charles Bossom bookselling business was started in early 2000. We offer a changing selection of old and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects. We frequently add new items to our stock so visit us regularly.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- 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....
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- 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...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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