How to Collect Old Furniture
by Frederick Litchfield
- Used
- Acceptable
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
George Bell and Sons, 1904. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1904. No Edition Remarks. 169 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth with black decoration and gilt lettering. Contains black and white photographic frontispiece, with other plates throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Plates are brighter. Binding is firm. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Deckled edges. Boards have light shelf-wear, with minor corner bumping and denting to edges. Spine and edges are heavily tanned, with visible splitting to ends. Gilt remains bright. Visible marks overall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1674471347MHP
- Title
- How to Collect Old Furniture
- Author
- Frederick Litchfield
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Bell and Sons
- Date Published
- 1904
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Glossary
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- 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....
- 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...
- Acceptable
- A non-traditional book condition description that generally refers to a book in readable condition, although no standard exists...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...