Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches
by Mary Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Acceptable/Acceptable
- Seller
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1935. Reprinted December 1935. 234 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over white cloth boards with lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece with plates and illustrations throughout. Hinges are slightly cracked with exposed netting. Moderate crinkling to gutters however binding remains firm. Pages, plates and illustrations are moderately tanned with noticeable foxing. Heavier tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Moderate tanning to spine and edges. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Minor loss to spine. Moderate tanning and foxing to dust jacket. Minor water mark to front panel.
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Details
- Bookseller
- World of Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1625580894MEP
- Title
- Mary Thomas's Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches
- Author
- Mary Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable/Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Date Published
- 1935
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Goring-by-Sea, West Sussex
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- 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....
- 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,...
- 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...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...