AN EXPLORATION OF DARTMOOR and Its ANTIQUITIES, With Some Account Of Its Borders. With a Map, Plans, Etchings and Other Illustrations
by Page, John Lloyd Warden
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Seeler and Co. Limited, 1889. Decorative Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Second Edition, with certain omissions rectified,1889. Complete with Large Fold-Out Map at the back. 21 Illustrations including 4 Etched Plates. Frontispiece has an etching of Cranmere pool, protected by Tissue Guard. Dark Blue cloth cover with Gilt Lettering to front & spine and Gilt picture of Lambs and a Ram by a Tall Carved Stone Monument. 316 Pages, 8" Tall, 700g. Previous owners inscription "L V Moxon, 13th September 1890, Tavistock, at top of Half Title Page. Some edge wear, mainly at corners and spine ends. (see photo). Pages and Illustrations in very nice, clean condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008198
- Title
- AN EXPLORATION OF DARTMOOR and Its ANTIQUITIES, With Some Account Of Its Borders. With a Map, Plans, Etchings and Other Illustrations
- Author
- Page, John Lloyd Warden
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Seeler and Co. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1889
- Keywords
- ARCHAEOLOGY/HISTORY/GREAT BRITAIN/LOCAL HISTORY/ARCHAEOLOGY/DARTMOOR/ENGLISH TOWNS & COUNTRYSIDE
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Cloth
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