COVENT GARDEN
by Taylor, Desmond Shawe-
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Poor
- Seller
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Blockley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Parrish & Co 1st edition, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Colour plates (7) + 28 b/w illustrations after Aubrey Beardsley, Rowlandson, Chalon and others.. Octavo cloth in torn dust jacket (tips rubbed and sunned & head of cover sl.damaged to hinge end) [72]pp. Endpapers foxed else V.G in damaged jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Abbey Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A53756
- Title
- COVENT GARDEN
- Author
- Taylor, Desmond Shawe-
- Illustrator
- Colour plates (7) + 28 b/w illustrations after Aubrey Beardsley, Rowlandson, Chalon and others.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Parrish & Co 1st edition
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- theatre opera music
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Non-Fiction;
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About the Seller
Abbey Antiquarian Books
Biblio member since 2005
Blockley, Gloucestershire
About Abbey Antiquarian Books
We are antiquarian booksellers established in Gloucestershire, England for over twenty years. We have general stock and specialise in early illustrated and children's books and pop-ups. We are members of PBFA.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...