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The Book-Hunter etc.
by Burton, John Hill
- Used
- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Providence, Rhode Island, United States
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About This Item
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good. Small 4to. 427 pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt titling to spine and decoration to front board. Cloth heavily rubbed and binding lightly shaken but holding sturdy. Limitation plate to fpd, stating this is number 307 of 1000 copies printed. Small bookseller's label (W.E. Franklin, Newcastle on Tyne) to bottom edge fpd. Bookplate of notable printer and collector Oscar Aurelius Morgner to ffep. Engraved frontispiece, plates, and text illustrations. Some light foxing scattered to tissue guards and nearby leaves, offsetting opposite plates. School report card for a Robert McMurray, dated 1931 laid in at center.
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Details
- Bookseller
- small volume
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 469
- Title
- The Book-Hunter etc.
- Author
- Burton, John Hill
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Publisher
- William Blackwood and Sons
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1882
- Keywords
- book collecting, printer, publisher, publishing, printing, bookbinding, bookbinder, rare books, books
Terms of Sale
small volume
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
small volume
Biblio member since 2023
Providence, Rhode Island
About small volume
Small Volume is based out of Providence, RI. We buy + sell old, rare, odd, unusual, and otherwise collectible books + ephemera.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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....
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
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