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Scottish Life And Character In Anecdote And Story
by William Harvey
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Eneas Mackay, 1899. Hardcover. Good. 1899. No edition remarks. 507 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic plate as frontispiece. Uncut deckled edges. Gilt upper text block edge. Pages have mild tanning and foxing throughout. Notable creasing to gutters. Pencil inscription to pastedowns. Moderate tanning and foxing to endpapers and text block edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Mild tanning to spine and board edges. Notable crushing and wear to spine ends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1690288626SEL
- Title
- Scottish Life And Character In Anecdote And Story
- Author
- William Harvey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Eneas Mackay
- Date Published
- 1899
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About the Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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....
- 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...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
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