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The Boy's Own Country Books: Descriptive of the Seasons and Rural Amusements
by Thomas Miller
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1868. Hardcover. Good. Handsome full leather prize binding of this young-persons guide to the outdoors from the Boy's Own franchise. Arranged by season it encompasses wildlife, activities and attendant history. With numeorus b/w engravings. Raised bands and gilt decoration to spine. marbled page edges with matching marbled end-papers. Inner and outer dentelles. School crest to cover but no prize plate or inscription. Rubbing to leather and joints. Contents prim and clean and binding sound. Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- AJ Scruffles
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004457
- Title
- The Boy's Own Country Books: Descriptive of the Seasons and Rural Amusements
- Author
- Thomas Miller
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1868
- Keywords
- leather_binding, nature, countryside, wildlife, outdoors, children, rural, activities, magazine.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Leather Bindings;
Terms of Sale
AJ Scruffles
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
AJ Scruffles
Biblio member since 2010
Leigh-On-Sea, Essex
About AJ Scruffles
AJ Scruffles is an online bookseller, based between Epping and Harlow. Our website also hosts an online magazine with reviews, articles and humour
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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...
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- 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...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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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