London: Provost & Co.. Fair. 1871. Hardcover. 186 pp., (i)-(viii) ads; sq. 8vo; original gilt stamped red cloth; all edges gilt; nine mounted albumen photographs with tissue guards of scenes and landscapes, including one circular vignette on title page. Publisher's advertisemet in back names Russell Sedgfield, and Stephen Thompson as photographers for the nine images. Front joint cracked with wear to top of spine; modrate soil; front hinge cracked with rough & jagged repair still holding fairly firm. Moderate foxing to tissue guards, plate pages show occasional soil at foredge, otherwise pages and particularly the mounted photographs clean. .

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Bookseller: G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 4304
Title: The Lord of the Isles.
Author: Scott, Sir Walter
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fair
Publisher: Provost & Co.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1871
Keywords: POETRY, GREAT, BRITAIN, SCOTLAND
Bookseller catalogs: Photography;

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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...
Fair: is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
Vignette: A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
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...
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
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...
Hinge: The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Cracked: In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...