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Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature.
by J. G. Wood
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1882. Hardcover. Good. 1882. No Edition Remarks. 533 pages. No dust jacket. Fully bound brown leather with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding slightly loose. Page 343 torn through but present. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and rubbing to corners. Spine heavily worn and deteriorating. Gilt lettering to spine is worn away but remains brighter on front. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1700036422ALK
- Title
- Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature.
- Author
- J. G. Wood
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Daldy, Isbister & Co.
- Date Published
- 1882
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Glossary
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- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- 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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