English Costume of the Nineteenth Century
by James Laver
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Adam and Charles Black, 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1947. Reprint. 89 pages. Pictorial jacket over black cloth. Contains colour illustrated frontispiece, with plates in both colour and black and white throughout. Pages and plates are mildly tanned and foxed, but text and images remain clear. Binding is firm. Boards have light shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and minimal scuffing to edges. Spine is moderately sunned, with noticeable crushing and slight splitting to ends. Visible bleach spotting to boards. Clipped jacket. Moderate tanning and minor foxing to all surfaces, heaviest to spine and edges. Visible water stain to front panel. Moderate edgewear, with some loss to spine ends.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1671643265DPB
- Title
- English Costume of the Nineteenth Century
- Author
- James Laver
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Adam and Charles Black
- Date Published
- 1947
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...