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A COLLECTION OF COATS OF ARMS BORNE BY THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOCESTER
by (NAYLOR, GEORGE)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Prairie Village, Kansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: J. Good, 1792. Marbled boards and top edge. Panelled spine, lettered in gilt. Matching marbled endpapers. The vignette title-page has been professionally-repaired at fore-edge. Title-page is foxed along periphery. Wide margins with some darkenening toward fore-edge. There are forty-nine pages of text followed by sixty-two plates. There are six coats of arms on each page, total 372. Plate sixty-two is browned and foxed, others are quite crisp and clean. This copy incliudes both the introduction and the list of subscribers that many copies lack. Collated complete. See photos.. First Edition. 1/2 Brown Cloth. Light Corner and Edge Wear/No Dust Jacket. Quarto.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Glenn Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015566
- Title
- A COLLECTION OF COATS OF ARMS BORNE BY THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY OF THE COUNTY OF GLOCESTER
- Author
- (NAYLOR, GEORGE)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Light Corner and Edge Wear
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J. Good
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1792
- Size
- Quarto
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Coat of Arms, Coats of Arms, England, English History, Gloucestershire
Terms of Sale
Glenn Books
All books are subject to prior sale. Books are guaranteed as described and may be returned to us within 10 days with immediate notice of intent to return the item.
About the Seller
Glenn Books
Biblio member since 2005
Prairie Village, Kansas
About Glenn Books
We are an antiquarian bookshop established in 1933. We are members of ABAA and ILAB.
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- 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....
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Jacket
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- 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...
- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Marbled boards
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- First Edition
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