EXAMPLES OF OLD ENGLISH HOUSES AND FURNITURE With Some Modern Works from Designs By the Author
by Adams, Maurice B
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Launceston, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: B. T. Batsford, 1888. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Folio. pp. [2], 9, [1]; 36 b/w plates with original paper guards. Original red cloth binding, boards with bevelled edges; rebacked preserving original spine, therefore good and strong, cloth somewhat marked with uneven fading, some old rubbing and scuffing. Contents clean and tight, no foxing or inscriptions, a few early pages a little worn/rubbed and toned to edges with a few very short nicks, single corner tip to plate 3 pinched off (approx 5 x 10mm), not nearly near affecting image. Otherwise plates all clean and crisp. A good to very good copy tightly bound..
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- Bookseller
- Loe Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 025470
- Title
- EXAMPLES OF OLD ENGLISH HOUSES AND FURNITURE With Some Modern Works from Designs By the Author
- Author
- Adams, Maurice B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- B. T. Batsford
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1888
- Size
- Folio
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
Terms of Sale
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- 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....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Rebacked
- having had the material covering the spine replaced. ...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- 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...
- 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...
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