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Well-Worn Roads of Spain, Holland, and Italy: Traveled By a Painter in Search of the Picturesque
by Smith, F. Hopkinson
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Andover, Massachusetts, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1887. Early printing (first published in 1886). Tan cloth with brown decoration and brown and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. 121 pp. Frayed spine ends and corners. Small stains on the boards. One page has a smudge. The rear endpapers are mildly foxed. In a tight binding with hinges intact.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Banjo Booksellers
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010881
- Title
- Well-Worn Roads of Spain, Holland, and Italy: Traveled By a Painter in Search of the Picturesque
- Author
- Smith, F. Hopkinson
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1887
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Banjo Booksellers
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About the Seller
Banjo Booksellers
Biblio member since 2004
Andover, Massachusetts
About Banjo Booksellers
On-line and mail-order only. We have a wide variety of books, both fiction and non-fiction, with an emphasis on modern first editions and collectible childrens books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- 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"...
- 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...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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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