Dartmoor illustrated by T A Falcon MA : a series of one hundred full page plates of its scenery and antiquities, with some short topographical notes.
by T A Falcon:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Exeter: James G Commin, 1900. First edition, large paper copy (hardback). 8vo (26cm by 17cm), xxxix, 100 plates from photographs. Original light brown cloth, gilt titling to the spine, gilt motif to the front board. The binding is rather dusty, the endpapers are foxed, and there is a gift inscription to the front free endpaper. Overall, this copy is in good condition. This large paper edition was limited to 125 copies; there was also a demy-8vo edition of 300 copies.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44107
- Title
- Dartmoor illustrated by T A Falcon MA : a series of one hundred full page plates of its scenery and antiquities, with some short topographical notes.
- Author
- T A Falcon:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Exeter: James G Commin, 1900.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
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About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
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Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
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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...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- First Edition
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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....
- G
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- Cloth
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