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Kenilworth illustrated, or the history of the Castle, Priory and Church of Kenilworth with a description of their present state
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1821 Book. Fair. Hardcover. [viii], 63, [1], 108 pages. + 18 plates. [1 other plate included in the pagination]. Spotting and browning to many plates and the pages opposite. Other foxing and marks to the text also. In original red cloth boards, gilt decorated to front, very stained and worn - lacks spine, front board detached. Outer upper corner of rear free end paper torn away. Page edges uncut. Damage to the inner margin of the title page where it has adhered to the frontispiece. Pages measure approximately 31.5 x 25cm..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Stephen Rench
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001390
- Title
- Kenilworth illustrated, or the history of the Castle, Priory and Church of Kenilworth with a description of their present state
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Publisher
- C. Whittingham
- Place of Publication
- Chiswick
- Date Published
- 1821
- Keywords
- kenilworth warwickshire
- Bookseller catalogs
- Warwickshire - towns and villages;
Terms of Sale
Stephen Rench
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About the Seller
Stephen Rench
Biblio member since 2012
Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire
About Stephen Rench
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Glossary
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- 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...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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