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KENT (with dust jacket)
by W.TEIGNMOUTH SHORE , W.BISCOMBE GARDNER
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Poor
- Seller
-
Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
LONDON: ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK / A & C Black, 1907 Green cloth boards with Hop Bine illustration and gilt titles to spine and front, 230 x 175 mm approx. Top edge gilt , x + 240 pp, Colour frontis with Caption guard + 72 other full colour plates by W.Biscombe Gardner all as called for + two fold out maps and plan. First Edition 1907. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Good/ Poor (Book- Colour rubbing to extremities, significant offset browning and foxing to end papers with sporadic foxing throughout to varying extent, the better quality china clay paper of the plates unaffected. Previous owner name in ink to reverse of free front end paper. Dust Jacket - shelf rubbed with tears, creases and two significant areas of loss - triangular 5.5 x 4 cm approx bottom front panel near tail of spine and 1 cm in depth across head. Now in a removable proprietary protective sleeve to which coloured paper has been inserted in front of the stark white of the backing paper so as not to draw the eye on the bookshelf). Those of us familiar with Hops will note that the image on the dust jacket is upside down! The book has been graded as good only because of the foxing and the price has been set on the basis of £1 a plate then allowance for the rare dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksonlinebrighton
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 127454
- Title
- KENT (with dust jacket)
- Author
- W.TEIGNMOUTH SHORE , W.BISCOMBE GARDNER
- Illustrator
- W.BISCOMBE GARDNER
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Poor
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK / A & C Black
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1907
- Keywords
- Kent, A & C Black's Colour Books, W Teignmouth Shore, W.Biscombe Gardner Illustrated, The Garden of England, Canterbury, Rochester, Maidstone, The Coast, Adam and Charles Black 1907 ,
Terms of Sale
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- 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...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Offset
- A technique of printing where the inked image or text is ...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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