Local records; or, historical register of remarkable events which have occurred exclusively in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Berwick upon Tweed [2 volumes].
by Sykes, John:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Tewkesbury, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Newcastle: John Sykes, 1824. First edition, complete in two volumes. 8vo, xiv, 372pp; title, 416pp. Engraved title pages, text illustrations. Uniformly bound in half green morocco, marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-tooled spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Upper board of volume 2 detached, bindings rubbed, preliminary pages foxed else contents VG.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Cornell Books Limited (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12617
- Title
- Local records; or, historical register of remarkable events which have occurred exclusively in the counties of Durham and Northumberland, town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, and Berwick upon Tweed [2 volumes].
- Author
- Sykes, John:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Newcastle: John Sykes, 1824.
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Cornell Books Limited
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About the Seller
Cornell Books Limited
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Tewkesbury
About Cornell Books Limited
We are a medium-sized bookshop located in a small country town in the west of England. The shop is open for business from 1030 to 1700 Monday to Saturday. The building is a fifteenth-century former public house. We are still awaiting the day when we find a book older than the shop itself!
Glossary
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- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- 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...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...