The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo
by Sir Edward Creasy
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Richard Bentley and Son, 1883. Hardcover. Good. 1883. Thirty-first edition. 407 pages. No dust jacket. Fully bound brown leather. Prize plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and rubbing to edges and corners. Spine heavily worn and deteriorating. Gilt to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1698147239IEV
- Title
- The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo
- Author
- Sir Edward Creasy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Richard Bentley and Son
- Date Published
- 1883
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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.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.,...