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Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners. In A Fathful Account of The Life and Death of John Bunyan. Or, A Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ To Him. ... Thoroughly Revised by the Eighth Edition. With Fifteen Bromide Photographs from Original Illustrations by Harold Copping.
by BUNYAN, John: COPPING, Harold:
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, The Religious Tract Society, 1905. Hardback, 10 x 7.5 inches. In Vellum bound covers with gilt lettering to front and spine, with blind embossed decoration. Top page edges gilt. In very good condition. Some minor handling marks to cover, some minor rubbing to ends of spine, else clean and smart. In protective clear plastic jacket. Some minor handling marks and a couple of minor spots to endpapers, some darkening to endpapers from tape on protective jacket. Some darkening and dark foxing spots to outer page edges, edges rough cut. Mounts of plates with some darkening and foxing, foxing mostly to tissue guards, adjacent pages are effected by darkening and foxing, including title page. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 250pp. With Fifteen Bromide Photograph plates, all with titled tissue guards, from Original Illustrations by Harold Copping.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87641
- Title
- Grace Abounding To The Chief Of Sinners. In A Fathful Account of The Life and Death of John Bunyan. Or, A Brief Relation of the Exceeding Mercy of God in Christ To Him. ... Thoroughly Revised by the Eighth Edition. With Fifteen Bromide Photographs from Original Illustrations by Harold Copping.
- Author
- BUNYAN, John: COPPING, Harold:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London, The Religious Tract Society, 1905
- Keywords
- Illustrated Books Biography, Theology, Illustrated Books, Bunyan, Harold Copping, Bromide, Plates, The Religious Tract Society, 1905, vellum, fine binding,
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About the Seller
The Antique Map & Bookshop
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Dorchester, Dorset
About The Antique Map & Bookshop
The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- 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....
- Edges
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- 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...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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...
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