Somerset Church Towers.
by Hamlet, J. (Comp. )
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Westmoreland, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
No Publishing Information. Good+. early 20th cent. First Edition. Hardcover. Corners worn, hinges and spine ends rubbed. ; Large 4to; Red calf, simple blind ruled panel boards within thin gilt rule, gilt spine title running lengthwise, top edge gilt. **Perpendicular style towers, 1375-1525. "These 60 collotypes were prepared by Mr. R.P. Brereton to illustrate a monograph on Somerset Church Towers which death unhappily prevented his completing." .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Janet & Henry Hurley (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 39793
- Title
- Somerset Church Towers.
- Author
- Hamlet, J. (Comp. )
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- No Publishing Information
- Date Published
- early 20th cent
- Keywords
- Religion, Catholic, Anglican, Church Architecture, Collotypes, Somerset, England
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Janet & Henry Hurley
Biblio member since 2006
Westmoreland, New Hampshire
About Janet & Henry Hurley
Hurley Books was established by my father, Henry Hurley, in 1966. We have been shipping books through the mail for over 40 years with over 200 catalogs having been issued. Our bookshop contains well over 50,000 volumes with 17,000 +/- currently listed on Biblio.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...