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A List of all the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full and Half Pay: with an Index; and a Succession of Colonels
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Harleston, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: War Office, 1805. Hardback. Fair/No Jacket. 1203 4to. Dated 1st February 1805. Fifty-third edition. Tree calf binding, gilt decoration, marbled end papers, morocco label to spine. 756 pages; bound in quarto, approximately 9 inches by 5.5 inches. Condition notes: A few corrections in ink (not a modern hand) here and there (eg to Contents pages). Front board detached, with front free end paper. Spine broken, some loss at top and bottom, spine strip rubbed and rather crumbly. Leather rubbed but sound. Clean, bright pages, text block sound.
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- Bookseller
- Duck Cottage Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2513
- Title
- A List of all the Officers of the Army and Royal Marines on Full and Half Pay: with an Index; and a Succession of Colonels
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- War Office
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1805
- Keywords
- military history, Army List
- Size
- 1203 4to
Terms of Sale
Duck Cottage Books
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About the Seller
Duck Cottage Books
Biblio member since 2010
Harleston, Norfolk
About Duck Cottage Books
Mixed stock that currently includes military history, geography and the history of geography, factory legislation and its history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- 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....
- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine Strip
- The material covering the spine, or the rear portion of the outside of a book.
- 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...
- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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