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English Costume: I. Early English
by Calthrop, Dion Clayton
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Original blue pebbled boards with gilt lettering and decorations on cover and along spine; light rubbing along edges. Binding tight and square; contents clean and unmarked except for award plate on front inside cover; light foxing on half title page; age appropriate toning. Gilt top edge. No dust jacket. 18 colored illustrated with protective tissue and numerous line drawings. 80pp plus publisher's advertising. First edition. All items carefully packed to avoid damage from moisture and rough handling.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Imperial Books and Collectibles
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017783
- Title
- English Costume: I. Early English
- Author
- Calthrop, Dion Clayton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1906
- Weight
- 0.31 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Imperial Books and Collectibles
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Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- 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...
- Pebbled
- Pebbled cloth or leather describes the covering of a hardcover book with a decorative texture of repeated small raised bumps,...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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