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Brown's Self Interpreting Family Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments
by Rev John Brown
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Stated. 1123 pages. Red cloth with debossed decorations and gilt lettering. Metal clasp to edge. Black and white illustrated frontispiece. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Both hinges mildly cracked, reinforced with brown tape. Binding throughout is firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to text block edges. Minor creasing to title page and Index page. Text is unaffected. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Slight crushing with small splits to spine ends and corners. Cloth is slightly frayed. Gilt lettering is darkened. Faint water staining to both boards causing cloth to be slightly discoloured. Book has a slight forward lean.
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- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1702661711MXP
- Title
- Brown's Self Interpreting Family Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments
- Author
- Rev John Brown
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- 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...
- 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,...
- 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....
- 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...
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