Scenes in the Life of the Royal Family.
by Edith C Kenyon:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: W Nicholson and sons, [1887]. No edition stated, but presumed first edition (hardback). 12mo (17cm by 13cm), 251pp, 5pp adverts. Frontispiece, plates, text illustrations. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to the front board and the spine. Some rubbing of the binding, lacks the front free endpaper, preliminary pages foxed. Only a good minus copy overall, but suitable as a reading, working or reference copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 58141
- Title
- Scenes in the Life of the Royal Family.
- Author
- Edith C Kenyon:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: W Nicholson and sons, [1887].
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
Returns accepted for any reason, provided that you notify us within 7 days of receipt. The customer is responsible for paying return shipping unless the book was not as described.
About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
Biblio member since 2005
Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.