Annals and Legends of Calais. With Sketches of Emigre Notabilities, and Memoir of Lady Hamilton.
by CALTON, ROBERT BELL:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
John Russell Smith, Lomdon, 1853. First edition. Tinted frontispiece, title vignette. 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches), pages: 220:4 (Publisher's catalogue). Original red cloth blocked in blind and gilt. Headband snagged, cloth to outer joint partialy cracked but very firm. Prelims. a little foxed.
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- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20023
- Title
- Annals and Legends of Calais. With Sketches of Emigre Notabilities, and Memoir of Lady Hamilton.
- Author
- CALTON, ROBERT BELL:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Russell Smith, Lomdon, 1853.
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Bristow and Garland
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Shaftesbury, Dorset
About Bristow and Garland
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Headband
- A strip of colored material attached to the text block at the top of the spine of a hard cover book. The same treatment applied...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- 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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...